Brain to Brain Interface

A fascinating and freaky experiment took place earlier this month at the University of  Washington.  It is being called the first human-to-human brain interface, whereby one researcher was able to control the hand motions of another researcher only by thinking about it.  The two researchers' brains were connected through the internet as each sat in a different lab.

..... Rao looked at a computer screen and played a simple video game with his mind. When he was supposed to fire a cannon at a target, he imagined moving his right hand (being careful not to actually move his hand), causing a cursor to hit the "fire" button. Almost instantaneously, Stocco, who wore noise-canceling earbuds and wasn't looking at a computer screen, involuntarily moved his right index finger to push the space bar on the keyboard in front of him, as if firing the cannon. Stocco compared the feeling of his hand moving involuntarily to that of a nervous tic......