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gizmag Article: New Computer Interface Provides a Mental Typewriter and Brain Pong

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The human-computer interface took a big leap with the unveiling of a mental typewriter at the CeBit Conference in Berlin Germany last week The new system is called the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI). Here is an excerpt from the article from gizmag.

March 14, 2006 Scientists demonstrated a brain-computer interface that translates brain signals into computer control signals this week at CeBIT in Berlin. The initial project demonstrates how a paralyzed patient could communicate by using a mental typewriter alone – without touching the keyboard. In the case of serious accident or illness, a patient’s limbs can be paralyzed, severely restricting communication with the outside world. The interface is already showing how it can help these patients to write texts and thus communicate with their environment.

Apparently the BBCI is good for more than text as the system plays games. The following quote also provides a link to a video to the playing of "Brain Pong.

"Brain Pong involves two BBCI users playing a game of teletennis in which the “rackets” are controlled by imagining movements and movements

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Fortune Magazine's Business Innovation 2005: What are the right questions to ask about innovation? Discover the answer from the SolutionPeople

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The SolutionPeople and their unique "Questionate-to-Innovate" method

Fortune Magazine's Innovation Blog presents Business Innovation 2005: What are the right questions to ask about innovation?. Here is an excerpt:

According to Gerald "SolutionMan" Haman, the president of SolutionPeople in Chicago and an adjunct professor of innovation at Northwestern University, there's a simple tool for jump-starting innovation in the boardrooms across America: ask a lot of questions. As part of the "Questionate to Innovate" framework that Haman has developed, companies are asked to create "Question Banks" and to think just as hard about the right questions to ask as how to answer them. As Haman explained to the FORTUNE business innovation blog, it's an approach that's enjoyed some remarkable success over the years with some big-name clients:

"Motorola has used Question Banks to stimulate hundreds of employees to brainstorm thousands of ideas on product development, marketing, and performance improvement. Corinne Miller, Motorola’s Director of Global Functional Learning, is an advocate of Question-Driven Innovation. “Too many times we’re looking for the right answers before we’ve established the right questions. Without a focus on questions, people can easily become myopic based on their own worldview. When this happens, the customer and the shareholders suffer,” according to Miller.

SolutionPeople has also helped American Express apply Question Banks to global marketing, customer service, and technology improvements. For a recent meeting with 1,100 American Express leaders in Las Vegas, SolutionPeople created a 45-minute innovation training module called “Express Your Brain” that included eight questions that guided crucial conversations about innovation."

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