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‘Mind Boggling’ – China Developing Tech That Allows Human Brain To Beam Radio Waves & Control Military Radar

Chinese researchers have claimed a breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) and brain-controlled technologies by demonstrating the ability to control and interact with electromagnetic waves via brainwaves remotely.

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The researchers claim that such a technology would allow humans to beam radio waves with their brains. It could have applications ranging from health monitoring to mind-controlled military radar.

“Our design provides users with a universal way to manipulate electromagnetic waves using brainwaves,” said Professor Wang Jiafu, a leading project scientist with Air Force Engineering University in northwestern Shaanxi province, in a peer-reviewed journal eLight on June 11.

Wang’s team drew inspiration from programmable metasurfaces (PM) capable of generating or manipulating radio waves, which Wang and his colleagues thought could be used to connect brainwaves and radio waves.




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While most of the existing PMs are wire connected to users, manually controlled, and not real-time, Wang’s team has proposed a concept of remotely mind-controlled metasurface (RMCM) via brainwaves.

This proposed concept would involve the metasurface being controlled in real-time via brainwaves transmitted wirelessly with the help of Bluetooth, rather than DC voltage from the power supply or AC voltage from signal generators.  

“If we can collect brainwaves and use them as the control signals of metasurfaces, we can not only allow the users to control metasurfaces with their mind but also can improve the response rate of metasurfaces. This will make a big step towards truly intelligent metasurfaces,” said Wang in the paper.

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The team fabricated an RMCM prototype for an experiment that consisted of a metasurface-control module, brainwave extraction module, Bluetooth wireless transmission module, DC power supply module, single-chip microcomputer module, and other additional wirings.

The researchers used a commercially available brainwave sensor module to acquire brainwave signals, a wearable device consisting of dry electrodes that collect and send brainwaves wirelessly toward the metasurface.

However, radio and brain waves are like different “languages,” so Wang’s team almost programmed the metasurface to translate brainwaves into radio signals.

“Our design provides users with a universal way to manipulate electromagnetic waves using brainwaves,” said the team.

Wang’s team claims their proposed concept and design can be readily extended to other mind-controlled functional or multi-functional metasurfaces. They may find applications in health monitoring, 5G/6G communications, and intelligent sensors.




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US-China Tech-War For BCI Technology

It is the latest example of China’s pursuit of BCI technologies to bypass the US, which currently has a lead in this field.

Of late, the interest in BCI technology has been increasing within the global startup community, as this field is at the forefront of a hotly contested tech war between the US and China.

One of the leading American players in BCI is Elon Musk’s Neuralink which has gone so far as to insert a microchip in a monkey’s skull, enabling it to control video games with just its mind.

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