Hmm...a portable brain scanner from Hitachi! Looks like the guys at the company have taken a break from manufacturing LCDs and Plasmas. Anyway, they have developed a prototype lightweight, portable brain scanner that allows users to keep tabs on their mental activity, thanks to the optical topography technology that stores the real-time brain activity in flash memory for examination.
The personal mind reader system features a 400 gram headset and a 630 gram controller, which is worn on the waist. A single PC can maintain up to 24 mind readers simultaneously thereby enabling many users to monitor brain activity during group activities. The technology could be used in areas such as health, psychology, education, marketing, and mind gaming.
Hitachi hasn’t commented anything on the personalization of the personal mind reader.
Via: Pinktentacle
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the Tricoders that we grew up watching in Starwars is becoming very real with the rapid advancement of medical technologies. This will certainly make medical scanning accessible even in the remotest and the poorest regions as this handheld scanner is ultra portable.
Would auger well for people who never get to gets those scans done for the place they reside in is too remote.Well said Jay, but this thought looks good only in writing for it wont be possible in a place like India as no one simply cares about the exact purpose behind bringing up a gadget being fulfilled.