{"id":13,"date":"2007-05-05T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-05-05T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T15:02:00","slug":"brainoculars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Brainoculars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/brainoculars-788243.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/brainoculars-788241.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>You may have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/miscellaneous\/news\/2007\/05\/binoculars\">this<\/a> already.  It&#8217;s been out for a few days now. And at first glance it&#8217;s nothing special: technology controlled by brainwaves through an ECG electrode interface, which is so far behind the cutting edge that you&#8217;ll be finding it in <i>games<\/i> before the end of the year.  But check out this quote as to why, exactly, the military would even <i>want<\/i> to develop brain-activated binoculars:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea is that EEG can spot &#8220;neural signatures&#8221; for target detection before the conscious mind becomes aware of a potential threat or target &#8230; In other words, like Spiderman&#8217;s &#8220;spider sense,&#8221; a soldier could be alerted to danger that his or her brain had sensed, but not yet had time to process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So.  Another end run around the prefrontal cortex in the name of speed and efficiency.  I&#8217;m telling you, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">nobody<\/span> likes the pointy-haired boss these days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen this already. It&#8217;s been out for a few days now. And at first glance it&#8217;s nothing special: technology controlled by brainwaves through an ECG electrode interface, which is so far behind the cutting edge that you&#8217;ll be finding it in games before the end of the year. But check out this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuro","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}