New Headphones: Can Read Your "Head Idea" [Full Text]

There has always been a prominent problem with technology's dynamic voice technology: talking to people around you can make you feel a little weird. However, technology continues to rise rapidly in people's homes. In conversations, people have less self-awareness of their machines.

The appearance of a non-verbal device is an inevitable trend. It completes work in a similar manner, but it does not take the form of dialogue. A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been studying such a device, but the hardware design must admit that it does not completely remove the entire self-awareness.

AlterEgo is a head-mounted or, more properly, a jaw-mounted device that reads neuromuscular signals through a built-in electrode. As MIT said, this hardware can read people's words in their heads.

In an interview, graduate student Arnav Kapur said: “The initial motivation for this idea was to build an IA device—an intelligent enhancement device. Our idea is: whether we can have an internal computing platform that can in some ways connect human functions and Computer, and let us feel like an internal extension of our own ideas?"

The school tested the device on 10 subjects and they basically read their own neurological information by having the product read. Once the calibration was completed, the research team stated that the accuracy of the directive was about 92% — to be honest, the accuracy of the voice command did not seem to differ much from the voice assistant I had used.

From the consumer's point of view, the potential of this device seems obvious, it looks like a medieval orthodontic device. The team also added bone-conduction features for audio playback to keep the system completely silent, an element that may make it useful for particular operating systems.