It's been done in rats, but now brain-to-brain interfacing has been accomplished in humans.On August 12th, Rajesh Rao, who studies computational neuroscience at the University of Washington, donned a stylish skull cap containing electrodes which picked up his neural activity. Across the campus, his colleague, Andrea Stucco wore a swim cap that was hooked up to a transcranial magnetic stimulation machine. Appropriate to our era, they were connected by Skype. Then Rao helped Stucco play a video game by initiating movements in Stucco's hand.
This was just announced on Wednesday, so I guess they wanted to finish the game before telling the world about this breakthrough in one human controlling another without having to pay them. This technology is certainly going to be popular with our corporate overlords.
Below is a handy illustration of how it works.
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