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The human brain is connected to the internet

19.09.2017

A team of researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have connected the human brain directly to the Internet in their latest experiment.

The scientists said that the connection of the human brain directly to the Internet in real time was carried out for the first time in history. The project is called Brainternet, and the data collected during the experiment should help developers create next-generation interfaces.

The developers used an electroencephalograph, dubbed Emotiv, which reads the signals generated by the brain. These signals were transmitted to a budget Raspberry Pi computer, which translated them live into data broadcast on a public website where anyone could watch the experiment.

Project leader Adam Pantanowitz noted that Brainternet is a new frontier in the development of systems for interaction between a computer and a human brain: “There is currently a lack of knowledge about how the human brain processes information. Brainternet should make it easier to understand how brain, regularly monitoring its activity and providing users with some interactivity."

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