Directly wireless communication of human minds via non-invasive brain-computer-metasurface platform

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel non-invasive electromagnetic brain-computer-metasurface platform enabling direct wireless communication between human minds, translating brain signals into digital information for accurate text transmission and flexible mind-control applications.

Contribution

It presents the first experimental demonstration of non-invasive wireless mind-to-mind communication using electromagnetic metasurfaces regulated by brain signals.

Findings

Successful wireless transmission of text between human operators.

Non-invasive translation of P300 EEG signals into digital code.

Flexible mind-control schemes with visual-beam scanning and pattern encoding.

Abstract

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), invasive or non-invasive, have projected unparalleled vision and promise for assisting patients in need to better their interaction with the surroundings. Inspired by the BCI-based rehabilitation technologies for nerve-system impairments and amputation, we propose an electromagnetic brain-computer-metasurface (EBCM) paradigm, regulated by human's cognition by brain signals directly and non-invasively. We experimentally show that our EBCM platform can translate human's mind from evoked potentials of P300-based electroencephalography to digital coding information in the electromagnetic domain non-invasively, which can be further processed and transported by an information metasurface in automated and wireless fashions. Directly wireless communications of the human minds are performed between two EBCM operators with accurate text transmissions. Moreover, several other proof-of-concept mind-control schemes are presented using the same EBCM platform, exhibiting flexibly-customized capabilities of information processing and synthesis like visual-beam scanning, wave modulations, and pattern encoding.