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Re:IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real. by pfraze on Monday December 19, 2011 @10:44PM (#3372212)
I bet it's harder not to compulsively think "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right" than it is to dial a phone.
Re:IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real. by MrMatters on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @02:59AM (#3372699)
Maybe if it recognized just thinking about that sequence, but I think having to deliberately focus on each direction (kind of like pressing a series of buttons in your mind, one after the other) would be too hard to accidentally do like that.