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By the year 2020, you won’t need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
到了2020年，你無需鍵盤及滑鼠來控制電腦，英特爾公司研究人員說。取而代之的是，使用者將只需用腦波即可開啟文件並上網。
Scientists at Intel’s research lab in Pittsburgh are working to find ways to read and harness human brain waves so they can be used to operate computers, television sets and cell phones. The brain waves would be harnessed with Intel-developed sensors implanted in people’s brains.
英特爾匹茲堡研究實驗室的科學家，正致力找出讀取並駕馭人類腦波的方法來操控電腦、電視機及手機。這些腦波將由植入腦中、由英特爾研發的感應器來駕馭。
Intel research scientist Dean Pomerleau and his research teammates from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, are currently working on decoding human brain activity.
英特爾研究科學家波默洛及其來自卡內基美隆大學及匹茲堡大學的研究團隊夥伴，目前正致力為人類腦部活動解碼。
Pomerleau said the team has used Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging （FMRI） machines to determine that blood flow changes in specific areas of the brain based on what word or image someone is thinking of. People tend to show the same brain patterns for similar thoughts, he added.
波默洛說，該團隊利用「功能性核磁共振機」，來判定腦部特定部位的血流，會根據一個人想到什麼字眼或影像而有什麼變化。人們傾向於對類似的想法展現出相同大腦模式，他補充說。
Pomerleau said researchers are close to gaining the ability to build brain sensing technology into a head set that could be used to manipulate a computer. The next step is development of a tiny, far less cumbersome sensor that could be implanted inside the brain.
波默洛說，研究人員已快要具備將腦部偵測科技內建在頭罩中的能力，這種頭罩可用來操縱電腦；接下來要研發的是一種可以植入腦中的小型、一點也不笨重的偵測器。
新聞辭典：
harness：動詞，利用；控制；駕馭。例句：The skills required to harness new technical innovations are growing every day. （利用新科技創新生產的技能每天都在增長。）
implant：動詞，植入；移植；灌輸；注入。例句：Teachers implant sound principles in the mind of children. （老師把健全的原則灌輸到兒童心中）
cumbersome ：形容詞，麻煩的；笨重的。例句： his cumbersome writing style.（他沉重的寫作風格。）
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