Sunday, April 26, 2009

Super Powers

Jessie Atkin posted a new blog on Digital Landing. Read about the latest technological advances in decoding a person's feelings.

Well, it’s not Heroes but it is mind reading, and it is real.

Canada’s largest children’s hospital has come up with a way to read infrared light absorbed in the brain to decode a person’s feelings. They specifically tested drink preferences with subjects. They hope it the technology can be used to look at the true feelings of people who can’t speak.

So maybe you won’t be able to cheat off the kid sitting behind you during an exam, but helping those with physical limitations seems like a more heroic use of the skill anyway.

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