This story is a major scoop for Bloomberg. The geo-political significance has yet to fully play out. One question I have is who benefits from the story having been leaked. In any case, it constitutes a technological tour de force and probably a case of strategic surprise.
Category: hacking
Hacking your stuff with consumer-grade EEG…
Apparently those fancy consumer-electronic EEG machines can be used for more than enhancing your personal growth….the report is here, hat tip to Bruce Schneier.
This brings up the larger question of how society will respond to the Makerization of Brain-Machine interfaces. Looking for analogies, the availability of consumer genomics seems to be going pretty well–although what happens when garage-lab DYI-types start trying to produce their own GM-crops remains to be seen!