Corpus Callosum came across this intriguing Ames Research Center project from the Spring of 2004. NASA researchers were busy then affixing electrodes under subjects' chins and flanking the Adam's apple. The sensors picked up on subvocal nerve activity, which a computer then reconstitutes into the words the subject intended to say.

The release's age makes me suspicious, but I will call today and report back on the state of this research, which was primitive then. I'll be really impressed, and terrified actually, when a computer can read my vocal cords cordlessly.

[Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center, Dominic Hart.]