Psychic 'mind-reading' computer will show your thoughts on screen

A mind-reading machine that can produce pictures of what a person is seeing or remembering has been developed by scientists.

The device studies patterns of brainwave activity and turns them into a moving image on a computer screen.

While the idea of a telepathy machine might sound like something from science fiction, the scientists say it could one day be used to solve crimes.

Leap forward: Halle Berry in X-Men. The telepathic abilities from the films are closer to reality after inventors created a mind-reading machine

In a pioneering experiment, an American team scanned the brain activity of two volunteers watching a video and used the results to recreate the images they were seeing.

Although the results were crude, the technique was able to reproduce the rough shape of a man in a white shirt and a city skyline.

Professor Jack Gallant, who carried out the experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, said: 'At the moment when you see something and want to describe it you have to use words or draw it and it doesn't work very well.

'This technology might allow you to recover an eyewitness's memory of a crime.'

The experiment is the latest in a series of studies designed to show how brain scans can reveal our innermost thoughts.

Using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, normally found in hospitals, the American team scanned the brains of two volunteers while they watched videos.

The results were fed into a computer which looked for links between colours, shapes and movements on the screen, and patterns of activity in the brain.

The computer software was then given the brain scans of the volunteers as they watched a different video and was asked to recreate what they were seeing.

According to Dr Gallant, who has yet to publish the results of the experiment, the software was close to the mark.

In one scene featuring comic actor Steve Martin in a white shirt, the computer reproduced his white torso and rough shape, but was unable to handle details of his face.

In another, the volunteers watched an image of a city skyline with a plane flying past.

The software was able to recreate the skyline - but not the aircraft.

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If you want to use it as a laptop, you'll have to have a seriously strong set of knees.

The Spacebook, a titan of technology, weighs in at around 12lb (5.5kg). Compared with the ever-shrinking portable computers on the market, which weigh just four or five pounds, it sounds hideously heavy.

But if you're willing to lug it about, you get an extra screen for your pains. With secret agent-style wizardry, the Spacebook laptop folds out to provide two equal-sized screens a total of 34in wide.

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This allows the user to flip between different applications or work on one screen while sneakily watching a DVD on the other.

The two LED backlit 16in or 17in screens slide out from the laptop one behind the other using a uniquely designed mechanism, and slide back into place when you need to use only one.

The first pictures have circulated on the internet and are creating a buzz in the computer industry. It goes on sale in the U.S. in December and in the UK three to six months later, for less than £1,800.

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Pictures of the chunky new laptop from gScreen first appeared on the technology website Gizmodo

The Spacebook was developed by a small company based in Alaska called gScreen, after owner and head designer Gordon Stewart.

He says it is aimed at the growing number of office workers, from bankers to professional designers, who need more than one monitor to keep track of multiple applications at the same time.

Mr Stewart said his invention was 'absolutely the opposite' of the trend for ever-smaller computers such as the stripped-down netbooks now on the market.

He added: 'We designed this knowing that many may not need the extra screen at all times.'

His model will have 4GB of memory and a DVD player. The company's blog suggests a smaller model with 13in screens is also in the offing.

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