The Remote Control in Your Mind
From: Scientific American - 12/2012 - page 32
By: David Pogue

Forget voice control or gesture recognition. Gadgets may soon link directly
to our brain 

Okay, great: we can control our phones with speech recognition and our
television sets with gesture recognition. But those technologies don't work
in all situations for all people. So I say, forget about those crude
beginnings; what we really want is thought recognition. 

As I found out during research for a recent NOVA episode, it mostly appears
that brain-computer interface (BCI) technology has not advanced very far just
yet. For example, I tried to make a toy helicopter fly by thinking “up” as I
wore a $300 commercial EEG headset. It barely worked. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n6/full/scientificamerican1212-32.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-far-away-mind-machine-integration

Links:
6 Electronic Devices You Can Control with Your Thoughts
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pogue-6-electronic-devices-you-can-control-with-your-thoughts

NOVA Science Now - What Will the Future Be Like? (video 52:37)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/what-future-be-like.html