Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

The Naked Scientists. This week connecting your brain to a computer.

By imagining moving my right hand or my left end,

as soon as the computer accumulates enough evidence about the

fact that I'm really willing to perform right or left then a command is delivered

in the robot deterrence for instance.

Class nuclear fusion, self-repairing batteries and is nitrogen, the next bad guy of global warming.

Hello, I'm Chris Smith and I've just returned from the AAAS conference in Washington DC where I met some of the

world's top scientific brains including running into a man with wires stuck all over his face.

The recognizer interprets my muscle movements.

Therefore I can't talk to you by simply mounting words.

Do you have any questions?

Can you now introduce yourself for me? Say who you are and tell us what it is you've actually developed that we've just been listening to?

My name is Michael Wand and I am from Kalsru Institute of Technology,

which is the largest research institution of Germany in South Western Germany.

The system you've just been listening to is a system for silent recognition of speech and what we do we put little electrodes in our faces.

This technology is called surface electromography because it captures the myosignals, the muzzle signals from my face and

from these signals we can retrace what has been said.

So the computer is recording the electrical signals coming off of each of the muscles as you speak

and it's working out based on the pattern of muscle activity what you must have said.

That's exactly right. So the signal which one can actually see on the screen

is fed into a statistical recognizer, which recognizes the pattern of the muscular

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