From Cosmic Log-
"GO BADGERS" isn't an unusual message to get from the University of Wisconsin at Madison - particularly when it's a status update from Twitter, the texting service that limits users to 140 characters at a time.
The unusual thing about this message is how it got to Twitter in the first place: via brain waves.
University of Wisconsin doctoral student Adam Wilson's cheer for the hometown team is among the first direct brain-to-Twitter messages ever sent - and it points the way to better communication systems for paralyzed patients who have to cope with the conditions faced by physicist Stephen Hawking and the late Jean-Dominique Bauby, author of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
Wilson suffers no such disability - but he put on the electrode-equipped cap and sent out Twitter updates with his thoughts in order to test out the system. "SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN," he says in one of the messages.
Isn't that amazing? People who can't move or speak will be able to communicate! With their EYES! :D I honestly think this is one of the most important inventions ever.
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