It's no surprise to hear about the intelligent computer, but have you ever heard of a psychic one? We're talking about a computer that has the uncanny ability to read your mind and you having the gift to control it with only your thoughts.

It's all thanks to new research developments in Brain Machine Interface (BMI). It provides a new way to communicate with the brain that doesn't depend on the normal output pathways of nerves and muscles. Once you bypass the body and brain's natural method of communication, those with severe disability or neurological disorders will be able to communicate via the computer by sheer thought. The research done in Brain Machine Interface (BMI) opens new exciting possibilities that will allow computers, robots and other mechanical devices as extensions of our muscles or senses. Think Darth Vadar's mechanical hand becoming a reality!

Brain Machine Interface (BMI) research conducted at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) are fine-tuning ways to control the computer by thought alone.

"Brain Machine Interface (BMI) is a fast-growing emerging technology. With BMI, the barriers of communicating will come crashing down. And the potential for such an application will have far-reaching consequences in the future," says Dr Guan Cuntai.

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