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Telepathic neckband tips up
AMBIENT has developed a neckband which can translate a person’s thoughts into speech by using nerve signals.
It works on the principle that a person is able to relay nerve signals to their vocal cords, which are then picked up by the Audeo neckband and wirelessly transmitted to a computer that converts them into computerised speech.
Currently, the system is only able to use about 150 words and phrases, but Ambient reckons that it will have a new and improved version of the Audeo, which will allow users to say whatever they want, by the end of 2008.
According to Ambient’s co founder, Michael Callahan, there is little risk that the Audeo would start spouting off its users' inner thoughts because the system only works when it picks up signals which were consciously sent to it and that require "a level above thinking".
It is hoped that the new technology will go some way towards helping those who have lost their speech through motor neurone disease (ALS). µ
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