{"id":207584,"date":"2017-04-20T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=207584"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:14:12","slug":"typing-directly-from-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/207584-typing-directly-from-your-brain.html","title":{"rendered":"Typing directly from your brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/videos\/vb.4\/10103661167577621\/?type=2&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook is working<\/strong><\/a> on a system that will let you type straight from your brain, at speeds 5-times faster than you can type on your phone today.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the project will allow people to share their thoughts, just like we do with photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur brains produce enough data to stream four HD movies every second,\u201d said Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the best way we have to get information out into the world &#8211; speech &#8211; can only transmit about the same amount of data as a 1980&#8217;s modem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, we want to turn it into a wearable technology that can be manufactured at scale,\u201d said Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven a simple yes\/no brain click would help make things like augmented reality feel much more natural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology is going to have to get a lot more advanced before we can share a pure thought or feeling, but this is a first step,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/207562-facebook-owns-4-of-the-5-most-downloaded-apps.html\">Facebook owns 4 of the 5 most-downloaded apps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[161,1767],"class_list":["post-207584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207672,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207584\/revisions\/207672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}