Those of you whom have long fantasized about brain-internet interfaces and cyborg bodies brace yourself because this technology is a lot closer than you may think. In the popular Cyberpunk Anime/light novel/manga, Ghost in the Shell written by Masamune Shirow, people can get cybernetic implants or cyberbrains that allow them to communicate to others over the internet but of course this all happened in a fantasy world a few years from now.Now, early September 2014 just a few years before the supposed cyberbrain implant in Ghost in the Shell became commercial, an international research effort has successfully had two people communicate simple words over the internet (long distance no less) using a non-invasive method, meaning without an implant.Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) have been getting much better over the years which permits paralyzed people to to walk again, improves mobility of artificial limbs, and so on. Commercially there are two very popular BCI that the J-community likes to dabble in. First, there's the Necomimi / Shippo(Tailly), which are animal ears and tail (ie: cat ears and cat tail) that animate based on your emotions and the Neurowear headset which can understand up to 15 commands that you give using thoughts alone.Moving along to even more impressive technology, Mice last year were able to hivemind over long distance using a BCI implant and now today, humans are able to do the same thing, minus the implant. But what was the purpose of this project?"We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways, one such pathway is, of course, the internet, so our question became, 'Could we develop an experiment that would bypass the talking or typing part of internet and establish direct brain-to-brain communication between subjects located far away from each other in India and France ?'" said researcher Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone. ref IGN NewsThis opens the doors to so many possibilities, both good and bad. We could interface with our smart phones differently, play games a lot more immersively (for many of you, you may be thinking about Sword Art Online), disabled people whom cannot talk or have trouble communicating could use these devices to articulate what they are thinking, and so on... New technologies are now releasing which makes this new field even more exciting such as the Oculus Rift, which is a Virtual reality headset that displays images in high-definition at a 1:1 response time, Augmented Reality over smart phones, tablets, and eye-wear like the Google Glass. HUD Displays in vehicles are becoming even more popular and simply telling your car where you want to go with an implant, particularly if it's like the Google Self-Driving Car would be quite impressive to say the least. In a few years from now, commercial digital contact lenses will become a thing, and we'll be able to have a HUD display controlled by our smartphones or smart watch and with this new BCI advancement, it may soon be possible to even control what you see with thoughts alone."We anticipate that computers in the not-so-distant future will interact directly with the human brain in a fluent manner, supporting both computer and brain-to-brain communication routinely," they said. "We anticipate that computers in the not-so-distant future will interact directly with the human brain in a fluent manner, supporting both computer- and brain-to-brain communication routinely."This technology, even as non-intrusive as it may be, was about 90% successful which is an incredible feat. The next logical step is likely going to take place with implants which would significantly increase the accuracy. However, some critics will claim fowl upon this and fear that the Government, Terrorists, or Hackers will be able to control your mind, or see what you see from this technology like in Ghost in the Shell and many other popular Cyberpunk flicks, but for now we can safely say it hasn't happened and it likely won't for a good while. However, the concept of Cyberbrain sclerosis as depicted in Ghost in the Shell might make some people weary about becoming more of a cyborg as this fictional disease is said to stem from rare cases of a futuristic type of "brain cancer" that rarely appear in people.Whatever people may think about this, personally I'm waiting for the day I can beam myself into an MMORPG and truly feel immersed. Where can I get my Playstation 9?For more information (In great detail) you can view the source material in the related link.

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