Mental Typewriter for the Disabled
Mental Typewriter for the Disabled is created by Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology along with the Department of Neurology at Charite Hospital in Germany. It will be presented for the first time at the computer technology fair at Hanover on March 9.
Led by a professional team headed by Professor Klause Robert Mueller and Gabriel Curio this Brain Computer Interface converts your thoughts into cursor movements displayed on a computer screen. The mechanism being quite similar to an Electroencephalogram (EEG), where with the help of a software programme, 128 electrodes fixed to the patient's scalp picks up only the relevant signals.
"This way it takes five to 10 minutes to write a sentence," according to Kaplow, who surprisingly is still not satisfied and states, "The breakthrough will come when we develop a contact-free EEG, something that looks like a cap, says Kaplow .
Brian-Computer interfaces, it is hoped, will also be utilized for creating a class of video games and in the automobile industry for creating automatic brakes.
Disabled or not aren't we all looking forward for our share.
Science does make a better world!
