Technology that reads your mind seems like a dream. Or a nightmare. But if Jaguar and NASA get it to work, it could stop you from falling asleep at the wheel
by reading brain waves.
Scientists are already capable of rudimentary thought-reading. Researchers have gone from bottling brains in formaldehyde and plumbing the psyche with psychology to machinery like CT scans and MRIs.
Now that researchers are fluent with the physical structure and chemical workings of the brain, they are after answers to the bigger mysteries. What's behind our intentions? What makes some people psychopaths? What do other people's dreams look like?