damn the muse

Researchers in Spain are trying to construct wheelchairs that run just with the power of the mind. Granted, I bet they still need batteries to give them juice, but imagine not having to use one of those joysticks to turn right or left. Is this the future?

Spanish scientists have begun work on a new brain-computer interface, or BCI, capable of converting thought into commands that a wheelchair can execute.

Other researchers have already had some success with hard-wired brain computer interfaces, but they're powered by large computers and are physically plugged into the brain.

The Spanish researchers hope to develop a small, mobile interface that works with electroencephalogram electrodes, or EEG, placed on the scalp.

Noninvasive and small. I wonder what they'll come up with next.