Neuro-Blogging: Is It The Next Big Wave?

A brain scientist at the University of Wisconsin is using Twitter to experiment and test an application that will allow people with biomedical difficulties to use the social media application without typing with their hands. They will instead be allowed to think what they want to tweet and communicate with the entire world through their brains alone. On April 1 he succeeded.

The experiment opens up all kinds of other possibilities as well.

With a tool like Twitter Tools a person can use their blog to send a tweet. If you can think your tweet through Twitter then by using Twitter’s API you should also be able to think a blog post using Twitter Tools and similar WordPress plugins. That brings up all kinds of possibilities:

How long will it be before:

• Terminally ill patients can blog from their hospital beds without the use of their hands?
• Drivers on a freeway are able to send a blog post while navigating rush hour traffic?
• Bathers can send a blog post from their tub without using a keyboard?
• Birthing mothers can keep loved ones informed during labor?
• Workers trapped in a land mine can help their rescuers find them?
• A man on the moon can instantly send a love note to his wife back at earth while in the midst of performing maintenance on the space station’s mechanical parts?

This is truly amazing technology. How long will it be before we are all wired to communicate across great distances using nothing but our brains and a computer?