His  message “using EEG to send tweet” was the result of using a brain-computer interface system that consisted of a electrode-studded cap which was wired to the computer.

The student, Adam Wilson, wore the cap and then focused on the computer screen where the keyboard as displayed. (watch video)

Justin Williams, a UW-Madison assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Wilson’s adviser, describes how it works…

“The way this works is that all the letters come up, and each one of them flashes individually, And what your brain does is, if you’re looking at the ‘R’ on the screen and all the other letters are flashing, nothing happens. But when the ‘R’ flashes, your brain says, ‘Hey, wait a minute. Something’s different about what I was just paying attention to.’ And you see a momentary change in brain activity.”

Wilson’s ability to send a 23 character message via twitter is great news for patients suffering from ‘locked in’ syndrome due to diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brain-stem stroke or high spinal cord injury. It offers possibilities in new and manageable ways for these patient’s to combine brain-computer interface technologies with modern communication tools.

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Developed by a father to be who was feeling a little left out of the pregnancy because he was missing the baby’s movements in the womb. Here’s what he says…

“As an expectant father, I am once-removed from the physical knowledge my wife has of our baby and its development. With the Kickbee, I wanted to create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements.”

So he created a way for all movements to be monitor via, believe it or not, twitter and the cellphone.

I’m not making this up. Everytime that the baby kicks, the vibrations travel wirelessly to twitter which then sends an SMS message to his cell phone…

The message -’I kicked mommy at…”

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nurse: have you shaved your scrotum?
uh, nope, no one told me to

Now there is kevsnip, a live twitter account of having a Vasectomy…

the very first pre-op stage of Operation Chop is complete at 18 hours before Snip time. Hair today, gone tomorrow.

Let’s just hope that no one plans on video blogging their vasectomy experience.

(hat tip to KevinMD.com)

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