IBM is predicting that in the next five years we’ll no longer need passwords for email or even ATMs, we’ll be able to control smartphones and laptops with our minds, and we may even live in a world without junk email.
Too good to be true? Today, yes. But researchers at tech companies such as IBM are working on bringing these ideas to fruition, which is why the 100-year-old tech giant is including these and other ideas in its sixth annual “5 in 5” report of five technologies “that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.”
Mind-reading gadgets: IBM and other companies are working on devices that you can control with your mind. For example, rather than having to tap on a touch screen or through a series of buttons to place a phone call, someday you may need only to imagine calling someone and a mind-reading phone will make the connection, IBM said.
“If you just need to think about calling someone, it happens,” IBM said of its prediction. “Or you can control the cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about where you want to move it.”
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Mind-reading technology, known as bioinformatics, has already shown up in simple forms from toy makers such as Mattel, and engineers at IBM and other companies “have designed headsets with advanced sensors to read electrical brain activity that can recognize facial expressions, excitement and concentration levels, and thoughts of a person without them physically taking any actions,” the report said.
“Within five years we will begin to see early applications of this technology in the gaming and entertainment industry,” IBM said. “Furthermore, doctors could use the technology to test brain patterns, possibly even assist in rehabilitation from strokes and to help in understanding brain disorders, such as autism.”
via IBM ‘5 in 5’ predicts no more passwords, mind-reading smartphones – latimes.com.