Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain From: Medical Design Technology - 04/19/2013 One day, we may be able to check e-mail or call a friend without ever touching a screen or even speaking to a disembodied helper. Samsung is researching how to bring mind control to its mobile devices with the hope of developing ways for people with mobility impairments to connect to the world. The ultimate goal of the project, say researchers in the company’s Emerging Technology Lab, is to broaden the ways in which all people can interact with devices. In collaboration with Roozbeh Jafari, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas, Dallas, Samsung researchers are testing how people can use their thoughts to launch an application, select a contact, select a song from a playlist, or power up or down a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. While Samsung has no immediate plans to offer a brain-controlled phone, the early-stage research, which involves a cap studded with EEG-monitoring electrodes, shows how a brain-computer interface could help people with mobility issues complete tasks that would otherwise be impossible. Read the entire article at: http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2013/04/samsung-demos-tablet-controlled-your-brain Links: Roozbeh Jafari http://www.essp.utdallas.edu/People/RoozbehJafari Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain (with video 2:13) http://www.technologyreview.com/news/513861/samsung-demos-a-tablet-controlled-by-your-brain Interview with BRAIN Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun http://www.technologyreview.com/qa/513476/interview-with-brain-project-pioneer-miyoung-chun/ Related: A Wireless Brain-Computer Interface http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512161/a-wireless-brain-computer-interface/ Rats Communicate through Brain Chips http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2013/02/rats-communicate-through-brain-chips