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March 29, 2011

Computer ESP -- Innovation Nation

Computer ESP -- Teaching computers to read our minds

Talk about a lie detector test! Reseachers at Carnegie Mellon University are designing computer programs that can decode our brain activity and reveal what we're thinking about. See how they're doing it in this episode of Innovation Nation with Miles O'Brien.

Credit: National Science Foundation


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