IBM predicts 'mind-controlled' PCs, disappearance of passwords within 5 years
Apple, Google and Microsoft are already investigating voice-controlled gadgets - or gadgets controlled by moving your body in front of a camera. But IBM thinks the tech giants might be a little shortsighted.
"Mind-reading has been wishful thinking for science fiction fans for decades, but their wish may soon come true," Daily Mail reported on Wednesday quoting a spokesperson.
The company is investigating smartphone and PC technology where 'you would just need to think about calling someone, and it happens'.
The prediction was part of IBM's annual 'Five in Five' report. The company also predicted that by 2016, passwords would have disappeared.
Primitive mind-control is already used in games such as Mattel's Mindflex, where you wear a brainwave-reading headband and concentrate to raise and lower a ball held mid-air by jets of air that respond to your brainwaves.
