Scientists in Albany, New York have just demonstrated for the first time that it's possible to turn a person's thoughts into a legible phrase using what they're calling a "brain-to-text" interface.

To be clear, these are the very early days of mind reading, if you want to call it that. The Albany study, carried out by researchers at the National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies and the State University of New York at Albany, took place in a very controlled environment and had to employ a couple tricks to get the job done.

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