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Be excited, but be scared. The era of thought controlled games has arrived, and soon you could be required only to ‘think’ to operate a video game. The Emotiv EPOC headset – the first Brain Computer Interface (BCI) device for the gaming market is the technology behind the revolution – and the company claims to have already mastered thought control. The EPOC detects and processes real time brain [...]

Every year IBM releases a “Next Five in Five” list, a list of innovations that “have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years”. In this third such list, the future is about a talking web and houses that power themselves. 1. Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and windows: Just about every part of regular architecture will [...]

Bill Gates claimed way back in 1981 that people wouldn’t need more than 640kb of memory in their computers. Today Windows alone needs thousands of times more bytes to come anywhere close to functioning. The Microsoft founder is not alone in the list of qualified individuals who were completely off-the-mark when it came to predicting the future. Bill Gates claimed way back in 1981 that people wouldn’t [...]