http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-brain-computer-music-interface
check the video, two laptops and a wired piano make the music after analyzing your brainwaves and compose music from the results.
We came a long way from mind drive.
I don’t know.
I hate making assumptions, but I would assume that it’s not as simple as they make it look. Actually one could argue weather or not this is a hoax.
Also, the whole thing is far too organized for something that is supposed to draw commands from brainwaves. Looking at it realisticly, one would expect the music to be a little more chaotic.
It’s just all happening so smooth and fast, and there is really no way to prove that the sound output is the same thing as the “intended” user input. How can I tell that the music played is the music that guy was actually thinking about?
You would need smooth brainwave response and interpretation to be of any very practical use for any application. It is a fact that the more you use a piece of brainwave technology to control something, the better you get at it. The guy in the video could very well have a good ability to envision music in his head.
Brainwave technology is expanding by leaps and bounds, in fact I did post one website of a company planning to bring brainwave devices to control videogames.
Also, if you don’t believe this, here in the page straight from the university’s website
Video games are a whole other ball of wax;
Something along those lines for videogames would be quite easy to sync to in a reasonable amount of time, because there are only several controlls to begin with.
When your talking about music it’s a much wider spectrum, and it’s not a simple matter of just detecting which brainwaves trigger which controll, because music is part thought, part feeling, and a jumble of other emotions that always have to be taken in account.
Also, determining which brain wave points to which note (and mind you they are different for each individual) would take years of syncing. Thats one of the main reasons why I suspect that this thing simply links certain brainwaves to “patterns” of music, which really isn’t true “music from the mind”. In other words your brainwaves can make original pieces of music from some predefined patterns, but could never make an original music pattern that you actually imagine.
So can you answer my previous question:
How can I tell that the music played is the music that guy was actually thinking about?
If this is indeed a true story, it kindof takes away from the dignity and pride of making a peice of music from your brain and putting it on paper, or atleast on something tangable.
Ha, ha.
In the future, a good imagination will be the most valuable skill one could posses.
In the future, a good imagination will be the most valuable skill one could posses.
And the hardest.
I guess I’m ready for the future, too bad that skill is considered mostly superfluous now…
“what can you do”
-“Have ideas, and manage people for the realisation of my ideas”
“yeah, that’s nice, but what can you do?”
-“sigh”.
Well, back to work, I have to use this keyboard thingy to type some weird text that makes stuff move on this two TV’s in front of me… (Flash, actionscript and blender for prerendered sprites, love my job).
The guy in the video could very well have a good ability to envision music in his head.
Maybe in the future the technology will become mainstream?
I have this music on my head that I cannot replicate much in real life because I do not know how.