Researchers From the Interuni-versity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), the Netherlands' Hoist Center and the Catholic University of Leuven presented the Mind Speller, a thought-to-text device intended to help people with motor disabilities, at the Medtech Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.rnA number of research institutes are working on similar devices, which make use of electro-encephalogram (EEG) brainwaves and positive biological feedback to let individuals use thought processes alone to control a cursor or a computer action.rnThe Mind Speller comes in the form of a cap, which IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) says is easy to wear. The prototype device could enable people suffering from paralysis or speech or language disorders to communicate, its developers reported.
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