IBM says you will soon be able to control you computer with ...just your mind. Is this cat performing an elaborate form of advanced computer control via its mind...or just warming its belly? Maybe..one day it could do both.
Kevin Brown, an IBM guru has been using a headset to move cubes around a computer screen. IBM plans to use a brain-machine interface (BMI) that can detect different kinds of brain waves to give a computer a command. Simple versions are already in use by toy companies. The military also is currently using this technology to drive tanks. This technology is heralded to be the next big thing in the next five years.
Would you want to be able to control your computer with your brain waves? I'd settle for just keeping my cat off my computer.