If you are not a passionate hacker, don’t rush to the electronics store though: these Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) devices have still years of development to go before reaching operational maturity: the historical Twitter message took several minutes to compose and send, so don’t plan to write a long…

If you haven’t heard about this already than you may be living under a rock.

“But the most interesting consequence of the coming flood of brainware isn’t technological at all. Parents, and anyone else whose schooldays are fading into memory, will be acutely aware that today’s youngsters have a facility with interactive technology that can be acutely disorienting.”

“Early on the afternoon of April 1, Adam Wilson posted a message to Twitter. But instead of using his hands to type, the University of Wisconsin biomedical engineer used his brain. “USING EEG TO SEND TWEET,” he thought.”