**It is the AlterEgo device, developed at MIT University in the United States.**
Under the name of AlterEgo, that bulky device that you see in the image is a more or less than a reader of thoughts. Developed by the MIT Media Lab, it is a device capable of recognizing number from zero to nine and identify a vocabulary composed of about 100 words, so technically we could send messages just by thinking about them and, not only do we not move a finger, but Also not even open your mouth, indicates the news portal Engadet.
The mechanism has a certain trick, since instead of detecting the thoughts reading your brain (probably what you thought of first), what it does is identify minute muscle movements of the cheek, jaw and chin with the help of some electrodes And for these movements to occur, you do not need to talk, because our brain sends signals to those facial muscles just by thinking. Once the movements are detected, the information is compared with an automatic learning system (neural network) that is responsible for translating the words, and finally the device sends an audio through a headset to transcribe the order.
With the information already transcribed can do many things, since paired with a smart device, such as a phone, for example, could be from creating silent annotations, execute commands, count the total of the shopping list or just change the channel on television. The best thing without a doubt is that the rate of success of the system is 90%, so this is a fairly reliable method whose development could come to fruition.
In this way, we could execute certain commands just by thinking them, leaving the activation methods of Google Now and Siri completely obsolete. There is no doubt that the function that this device could perform with people with reduced mobility would be immense, although it could also define the future of consumer wearables by raising them to a new level
