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IBM predicts 'mind controlled' PCs within five years

IBM predicts 'mind-controlled' PCs within five years

By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 6 June 2012 13:21 IST

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Technology company IBM predicts that mind-controlled computers will be on the market within five years.

Technology company IBM predicts that mind-controlled computers will be on the market within five years.

Apple, Google and Microsoft are already investigating voice-controlled gadgets - or gadgets controlled by moving your body in front of a camera. But IBM thinks the tech giants might be a little shortsighted.

"Mind-reading has been wishful thinking for science fiction fans for decades, but their wish may soon come true," Daily Mail reported Wednesday quoting a spokesperson.

The company is investigating smartphone and PC technology where "you would just need to think about calling someone, and it happens".

The prediction was part of IBM's annual "Five in Five" report. The company also predicted that by 2016, passwords would have disappeared.

Primitive mind-control is already used in games such as Mattel's Mindflex, where you wear a brainwave-reading headband and concentrate to raise and lower a ball - held mid-air by jets of air that respond to your brainwaves.

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