Innovative technologies are rapidly advancing human capabilities. A new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates a one-size-fits-all noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) that enables users to play computer games through mind-reading.

“Noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCI) based on electroencephalography (EEG) have proven efficient in applications such as neurorehabilitation, robotics, communication, or virtual reality,” wrote corresponding authors Satyam Kumar and José del R Millán in collaboration with Hussein Alawieh, Frigyes Samuel Racz, and Rawan Fakhreddine at The University of Texas at Austin.

Using thoughts as a method of managing external computing devices and electronics is a major leap forward for humankind. To put this in context, during the 1950s to 1970s early computers were programmed using stacks of paper punch cards until the rise of magnetic tape, hard drives, and other storage technologies in the early........

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