On September 23rd a team of scientists from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University announced that they have successfully connected three living human brains, to form the worlds first neural social network. The teams leader, Dr. Rajesh P.D. Rao says that the new system is called BrainNet. In their research, the team was able to use the BrainNet interface to allow the three brains to play a game of Tetris.
In the study, the team used two senders and one receiver. The senders used electroencephalograms or EEGs, while the receiver used a transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS helmet. The two senders could see the game but the receiver could not. The senders sent messages to the receiver that were registered as flashes of light. This helped the receiver to orient the game pieces. The team was able to get an 81% success rate from five groups of three subjects each.
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