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Ever since the debut of the series Star Trek, people have wanted to create technologies that mimicked or surpassed those that Gene Roddenberry envisioned for the future, but most thought the tricorder, Dr. McCoy’s medical diagnostic tool, would come before the Vulcan mind meld.
Rice University is working on the creation of a headset device that aims to connect two brains, akin to Mr. Spock’s ability to telepathically link with other beings.
The MOANA headset will feature more advanced technology than shown, but will likely not have the secondary use of draining pasta.
The project is part of DARPA’s Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3), which recently funded six teams to create a device capable…