8 Mind-blowing Gadgets You Can Control Just With Your Brain

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So Google Glass is the future, you say? Think again. Imagine a future where you can move anything with just your mind, with high concentration. If you think that is mind-blowing, get this, that future is already here.

In this post, we want to bring to your awareness 10 existing gadgets that allow your brain to command and complete real-life tasks, including using your iPhone and moving virtual characters in-game! Let’s dive into the article for more revelation on this interesting topic.

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First Ever Cellular-Level Video of a Whole Brain Working

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This video is the first time scientists have ever been able to image the whole brain of a vertebrate creature in such a way that you can see individual cells and simultaneously how they're firing and behaving in real time. This is how the brain really, really works—and it's amazing.

The research, published in Nature Methods, explains how scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus were able to use a technique called high-speed light sheet microscopy to image the activity of 80 percent of the neurons in the brain of a zebra fish larva. They were able to capture images once every 1.3 seconds—which, as Nature explains, is a speed approximate to neural activity patterns in the brain.

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Soon You Will Interact With Computers Through Thought Alone

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Amplifiers for the human brain, designed to allow people with paralysis to interact with the world, aren’t the most easily understood technology. So g.tec, the company that makes them, has come up with the following creative marketing strategy: Convince us that we’ll soon be interacting with computers through thought alone.

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Will it ever be possible to compute the human brain?

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In the video below, Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria is seen to make a spectacular grab to save a reporter from certain death — or at least serious injury. Granted, Evan may have had a little help from video editing, but at the professional level at least, comparable performances no doubt occur every time an umpire gives the command to play ball. The computations a man-made machine would need to perform to detect and track an incoming threat, like an errant ball, and simultaneously perform motor adjustments to intercept it are certainly not trivial. Yet, for a human brain, the computations underlying such virtuosity pale in comparison to the massive background processing interleaved to create the awareness to perform the task in the first place — or to chose a different course of action on say, the tenth run of the scenario.

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Will humans someday communicate by thought alone?

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It was one of the great “eureka” moments in the history of neuroscience, caught on film as it was taking place in London, Ont.

The patient, Scott Routley, was severely brain-injured in 1999 after being hit by a police car. Given only two years to live at that time, he had already far exceeded medical augury, but the doctors who had examined him for more than a dozen years could find no signs of awareness in him.

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20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind

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Viewer discretion advised! Do not scroll down unless your brain is made of steel and your nerves are Teflon. Some people simply cannot stand optical illusions. For the rest of you: Check out teh awesommmmmmmez.

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The Psychology of Music

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There’s more to why we like music than just a catchy beat or an easy karaoke tune.

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This Is How Your Brain Works

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Some days, after a good night's rest and a protein rich breakfast, my brain works wonderfully. It's well wrinkled, filled to the brim with answers and snapping synapses. Other days, after an epic night and a regurgitated breakfast, my brain just doesn't want to be bothered. It's smooth and thoughtless. How does that damn brain work? ASAP Science analyzes the brain by detailing the difference between fast thinking and slow thinking. You're going to think in a whole new way after this.

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Creativity In Children's Mind - Photos

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Most creative people are the kids because they don’t respect the rules as much as grown ups. Try to remember when you were a kid and how you imagined the world without borders.

That the reason why British photographer Tim Macpherson illustrated children’s imaginations by funny and very well executed photos.

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How Mind-Controlled Games Work - And Why It's Way, Way Bigger Than That

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While major hardware makers are busy squabbling over "4K" vs "Ultra HD", the future is quietly creeping in around the edges. A future with implications in the real world - big ones. Really big ones. Think using crowd-sourced mind control to change the color of Niagara Falls and the CN Tower big. Crowd-funded and completely hackable - by definition the exact opposite of gadgets that today's bloated, out-of-touch companies crank out - projects like the Muse headband are about to crash into technology as we know it with meteoric force

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Top Mind-Bending Illusions in 2012

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Let’s wrap up 2012 with some of the most mind-bending photos or artworks we came across this year. Though an illusion is defined in several different ways, we like it when it’s described as something that distorts our senses or changes our perceived reality. From clever companies to creative street artists, these were the top works that really messed with our minds.

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This Is My Brain on YouTube

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Each month, the world watches 4 billion hours of YouTube video. And many people catch those clips during work breaks, while commuting or sneaking them in at the office.

Before I started working at Mashable, I was probably still a significant contributor to this number. I don't sneak videos in between breaks at work, because I'm too busy sleeping, breathing and eating. (Plus, I think about YouTube videos for a living.) This is normally the part when someone jokes that I get paid to watch cat videos all day, but that is a myth that seriously needs to be debunked.

Let's say I spent 2.5 hours per work day watching YouTube videos. (It's a conservative number, believe it or not.) Over 52 weeks — give or take a couple days, so we'll say 245 — that would mean I spent 613 hours watching YouTube videos this year.

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50 Amazing Optical Illusions That will Play with your Mind

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Optical illusions are presentations of objects as well as situations in such a way, that it confuses your vision, and projects double meaning of the same image to you simultaneously. Optical illusions are really fun to see, as they confuse us about what the picture really is, and play with our minds. Though it’s a modified form of any image, or any image shot from a different perspective, but still it makes our minds think that the image depicts more than one situation.

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9 TED Talks That Will Stretch Your Business Mind

I've been fortunate enough to be able to attend the famed TED conference since 2008. Within that timeframe, I have also helped out on a few of the TEDx events. It's always a treat. I am privileged to be able to speak in front of audiences many times throughout the year, and I count the TED conference as one of a handful of events that I attend for the sole reason of personal development. It's my time to learn, think and attempt to do some serious reflection. A few days ago, Mashable ran an article titled, Tim O'Reilly: 9 TEDTalks That Stretched My Mind. Well, it inspired me to put together a list of TED Talks that have forced me to rethink and reshape my vision of business. I hope you enjoy these, and please feel free to add your picks in the comments below.

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Mind-Controlled Robots Bring Us One Step Closer To Our Avatar Future

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It's been speculated—in big budget movies, no less—that one day mankind will never leave its computers, and will instead explore the world through virtual reality and robots. And here's the cutting-edge research that will make that nightmarish future possible.

Researchers at the CRNS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory have created an android that can be controlled using thoughts alone. But it's not quite at the point where a user can don an electrode-embedded cap and their robot avatar will run off into the streets. At the moment the user chooses and concentrates on flashing images which then give the robot instructions on a given task.

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Facebook Psychology - Is Addictions Affecting Our Minds?

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Is Facebook affecting the way our minds function? It’s a safe bet to say that the vast majority of those looking at this infographic will have to resist the urge to click on the Facebook notification icon appearing at the top.

It doesn’t matter if you know that isn’t an actual Facebook notification. It doesn’t matter that you probably have your Facebook page open in another tab. You still want to click the picture of a notification icon just to be sure nothing will happen. This is the way our minds have been trained to react to things that have become staples of our society and interactions with others.

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What If Your Smartphone Could Read Your Mind? Kimera Is Working On It

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Today's smartphones are pretty darned smart. Yet we are only scratching the surface of what these devices might do. What if our smartphones were actually intelligent? Able to perceive our actions and intentions and act upon them on our behalf? That's the goal of a startup called Kimera.

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Neuroscience of Music - How Music Enhances Learning

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Neuroscience research into the neuroscience of music shows that musicians’ brains may be primed to distinguish meaningful sensory information from noise. This ability seems to enhance other cognitive abilities such as learning, language, memory and neuroplasticity of various brain areas.

Scientific review of how music training primes nervous system and boosts learning

Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players, whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, more likely today, Lady Gaga, only hint at music’s effect on the soul throughout the ages.

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Rejuvenate Your Brain While You Work: 10 Ways

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In my last column, I wrote about how I lead groups of volunteers to work with the Kenyan Children Foundation in Africa, and how we all return home exhausted but with our brains refreshed and renewed. We take a break from our usual ways of thinking, and open our minds to new ideas and experiences. But you don't have to travel thousands of miles from home to recharge your brain.

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Digital Stress on Your Brain [Infographic]

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Stop reading this and check how many tabs are currently open, I’ll wait….. Are you multitasking? As technology becomes more and more part of out lives, most people are learning to do several things at once. Unfortunately, all of our “multitasking” may have some serious consequences. Enjoy!

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