AUSTIN, Texas Use your brain to control the world. That's the promise of the brain-machine interface , a system that directly translates your thoughts into actions. Here at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova, technologists from the Near Future Laboratory , have showed how popular culture has explored the possibilities of the devices for both good and evil and how researchers are making the technology a reality today.
Consider, for example, the 1983 sci-fi classic Brainstorm , starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood as scientists that invent "The Hat," a device that can record thoughts and project them into the minds of others:
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