Memory glasses
MIT researchers announce a new invention: "memory glasses," intended to treat poor eyesight and poor mental recall.Whatever you need to remember is programmed into a tiny computer that you wear. The computer sends messages in the form of light to a mini TV screen on the glasses. The messages -- like someone's name, or a word like keys or medicine -- flash before your eyes at 180th of a second. It's too fast for the eyes to notice, but not the brain. "Our tests have shown a 50 percent better memory with these than without, and the thing that's interesting is that people aren't even aware that anything is happening," [MIT spokesman Dr. Alex] Pentland said.Link (thanks, BT)
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