We’re no strangers to crazy DARPA projects around here, but this one especially strikes our fantastic fancy. The agency’s researchers are currently undertaking a project — called Silent Talk — to “allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.” That’s right: they’re talking about telepathy. Using an EEG to read brain waves, DARPA is going to attempt to analyze “pre-speech” thoughts, then transmit them to another person. They first plan to map people’s EEG patterns to his / her individual words, then see if those patterns are common to all people. If they are, then the team will move on to developing a way to transmitting those patterns to another person. Dream big, that’s what we always say!

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