I'm really interested in BioTech for a lot of reasons (I once wanted to be a neurosurgeon and it was laziness that kept me from doing it). Both of my parents were/are in medicine and the human body just fascinates me. And now that I'm into computers, it just seems like a great marriage of interests.
Today on Read Write Web there is an article about brain sensors and using them to communicate with your computer. We've all seen things on TV about people with disabilities being able to communicate by thinking, and this is not really a new thing. But, it's not ever been mainstream and it's quickly becoming so.
I've seen games in a few places where you wear a headset and control different objects (one or two of which are mentioned in the RWW article), but apparently it's becoming hip to hack those and do all kinds of interesting things, although not necessarily medical in nature.
I'm not really into having electrodes implanted anywhere in my body (microchips included). Hell, I don't even have a real tattoo! But if it's somehting like slipping on a headset and thinking about things, imagine how much faster I can get my programming done? I can be thinking about a program while running, saving tons of time.
Say goodbye to the office, right? :)
