Looks like the next step is almost there technologically, where we'll have programmers coding away while moving the mouse with their minds.

Next steps after that would be programmers coding away with their minds..?

Give me one of these and a set of Newgle Glasses, all connected to a wristwatch computer on the other arm and we'll be able to dump laptops.

Imagine literally being able to work anywhere. On the beach, climbing a mountain, anywhere the hardware works.

I can see it: virtual screens projected in our eyes (or directly to brain), with mind-controlled keyboard, mouse and/or other input types..

So programmers of the future might just look like high-tech monks meditating.

Dreaming up artificial realities using only our brains.

One day we will all be gods.

> One day we will all be gods.

Or the entire world will be our cubicle.

Hopefully no need for them to be only artificial realities.

Probably not good when climbing a mountain.

On the obituary "Lost grip due to an auto-play ad at full volume...". ;)

What are these "Newgle" glasses ? I have not found any useful references to these.

They're a hypothetical future product like Google Glasses, but much better.

> ... we'll have programmers coding away while moving the mouse with their minds.

Personally, I'd really like to be able to use something like this for CAD design / performing operations on 3D models. :)

For bonus points, multi-user interactive product design sessions.

That should help to reduce iteration time in product development.

Why do you need a mouse at all? I barely ever use it.

Very few websites (apart from the most basic ones) are keyboard-friendly.

You're gonna love Vimium/Vimperator/whatever. It makes the whole browser keyboard-accessible with easy bindings (if you're familiar with the Vim ones).

I really liked Vimium, but I ran into a problem where it just annihilated CPU and I had to uninstall it. It's probably been a few version changes since then, so I might give it a try again.

This is why I have a real hard time buying anything other than a Thinkpad, because of the trackpoint. If I have to move my wrists from where they're planted on the keyboard, it feels about as annoying as having to get up off the couch after I'm all comfortable because I have to go to the bathroom.

I agree. A better version of this type of technology was described by David Brin in the 90s.

Why not measure the minute signals of the mouth to predict word commands instead of hand movements?

my guess is the precision, dexterity and energy cost of finger / hand / wrist movements make them more effective than using a mouth.

An example would be complex poses such as the "gun" shape with a hand as opposed to "pouting" your lips, there's so much opportunity to finely tune the motion from open hand to gun shape but it's more linear with pouting. However I'm not sure where or how the "thinking" part would play into this, eg physical muscle movements vs intention of muscle movements.

And there might just be too much noise and involuntary mouth movements that would make it impractical (eg, breathing, swallowing), plus the fact you'd look like a psychopath mumbling to yourself.