Hey everybody, I’m back. Longer posts later this week about my trip to Disney. But for now, I thought this was pretty cool:

Pink Tentacle had an awesome article about a team of Japanese scientists that performed serious awesome by finding a way to “reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor.”

“The scientists were able to reconstruct various images viewed by a person by analyzing changes in their cerebral blood flow. Using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, the researchers first mapped the blood flow changes that occurred in the cerebral visual cortex as subjects viewed various images held in front of their eyes. Subjects were shown 400 random 10 x 10 pixel black-and-white images for a period of 12 seconds each. While the fMRI machine monitored the changes in brain activity, a computer crunched the data and learned to associate the various changes in brain activity with the different image designs.

Then, when the test subjects were shown a completely new set of images, such as the letters N-E-U-R-O-N, the system was able to reconstruct and display what the test subjects were viewing based solely on their brain activity.”

This might scare some people, because it’s one step closer to the tinfoil-hat nightmare of mind-reading neural implants. But as a Gamer, I am obligated to notice that this is also one step closer to putting images into the brain as well.

Oh yeah. Gimme some of that Instanced-PVP.

Er, sorry.

Check it out HERE