This was just so mind-blowing to me that I had to post it. I’m only posting a little teaser excerpt, so make sure to go read the whole article. INSANE!

When we want to convey a message, we need to move our body, for example by speaking or by tapping a keyboard,” said Yukiyasu Kamitani, the project’s head researcher from the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, a private institute based in Kyoto, Japan.

“But if we can get information directly from the brain, it will be possible to communicate directly by imagining what we want to say, without having to move,” Kamitani said in a telephone interview with Reuters.

That is simultaneously one of the coolest and most terrifying things I have read lately.