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Facebook Buys Startup Developing
Mind-Reading Wristband

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Facebook is acquiring a startup that's been developing a mind-reading wristband.

The "brain-machine interface" from CRTL-Labs reads electrical signals through your arm and decodes the data into commands that can, in theory, then be sent off to electronic devices to control them.

"We know there are more natural, intuitive ways to interact with devices. And we want to build them. It's why we've agreed to acquire CTRL-labs," Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's head of augmented reality and VR, announced on Monday.

According to Bloomberg, Facebook is paying between $500 million to $1 billion to acquire CRTL-Labs, which will join the company's VR/augmented reality division. Facebook may talk more about its mind-reading project plans tomorrow at its Oculus Connect conference in San Jose, California.

Facebook has been developing mind-reading tech of its own. Its prototype involves a "non-invasive" headset that uses infrared light to read brain activity. The goal is to decode words imagined in your mind, which sounds creepy, especially for a company embroiled in data privacy scandals. But Facebook said the technology powering the prototype will take years, perhaps a decade, to fully develop, and it's mulling how to make the technology secure and private.

The wristband from CRTL-Labs is also in the early stages. The startup has only been offering previews of it to select developers.

 

Article Source: Michael Kan / PCMag.com

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