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Neuroscientists behind the project called it "BrainNet", a "multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving".
In layman's terms, researchers from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University figured out a way to connect three brains (still attached to their human hosts!) and have the owners of said brains make collective choices together without speaking.
And they tested it by playing Tetris. Because of course they did.
The team used "electroencephalograms" (EEGs) to record electric impulses from two human brains and "transcranial magnetic stimulation" (TMS) to deliver information to a third brain. The end result: an interface that allowed three human subjects to collaborate and solve Tetris problems using brain-to-brain communication.
The article doesn't say how much calibration they had to perform for each group of test subjects, to make sure they were isolating the correct signal from the senders' brains.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @03:30AM (3 children)
What is this, a scientist week? Why are them scientists doing all these shits, on SoylentNews no less? What's going on here?
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:29AM (2 children)
What, did they fry you brain trying to communicate with you?
I mean, come on, at least S/N communication is writing only, your exposure to it should carry minimal risk for a normal human.
Trump, alt-right and ctrl-left and whatnot have become boring subjects by predictability and the level of discussion.
aristachus submissions are still rejected, jmoris still spews his authoritarian megalomaniac stuff (disregarding the fact that the powers to be will squish him in the process), khallow is still afraid that renewables will let him bankrupt and the 3rd world in poverty, TMB is still half-fishing (and S/N servers still generate http-500 for a few minutes around the time the mod-points ration is renewed everyday), ETH is still trolling on the same lines as ever (only much rarer these days, but the topics? same-old same-ols), I'm still grinning, the group of "monkey" nics here are still "monkeying", etc (ah, yes, the "man power" troll is still spamming S/N). (apologies for all the rest of you which I omitted, it's not that you aren't worthy of a mention, but I'm growing old and the current C++ compilation is almost finished)
Maayybe Runaway shows some signs of change at heart [soylentnews.org] in regards with the "liberty from government regulation" vs "cost of health care" - he just learnt that his MD won't bother anymore with the rest-of-his-life illness he nurses - 'cause corporate mergers and whatnow, and it's not in MD's mercantile interest to do it anymore, Hippocratic oath be damn'd.
Funny how things like this start to mellow-down conservatives when they discover that their "Fuck you, I got mine" turns out not enough and the "Fuck you, I got mine" of others have more power than his.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @12:45PM
Yeah, those are pretty damn lame.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:45PM
Oh yeah! We're monkeying the crap outta it!