VIDEO:  Mind Control - Human brain-to-brain interface allows one user to control another man's hand

08/27/2013 - 00:00

By Doree Armstrong and Michelle Ma -

University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.

Using electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation, Rajesh Rao sent a brain signal to Andrea Stocco on the other side of the UW campus, causing Stocco’s finger to move on a keyboard.

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