MIT student wows ’60 Minutes’ by surfing the internet and ordering pizza — with his mind

ronjor · Apr 23, 2018

by Kurt Schlosser on April 23, 2018

Arnav Kapur, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, was featured on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, showing off a project called AlterEgo. The device worn on Kapur’s head works when the user internally vocalizes a specific command or question — sort of like silently Googling something in your head. Electrical signals that the brain normally sends to the vocal cords are intercepted and sent to a computer and that information is then communicated to the user’s inner ear via vibrations.
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MIT student wows ’60 Minutes’ by surfing the internet and ordering pizza — with his mind

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