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Research students at Keio University are able to us Prof. Junichi Ushiba,'s brain-computer interface technology in a laboratory in Hiyoshi, Yokohama, near Tokyo.

The professor's technology monitors brain activity.

The players acan then move their 'Second Life' avatars just by thinking of commands like:

1. forward,

2. right

3. left,

The interface uses electrodes attached to the user's scalp. The electrodes can sense activity in the brain's sensory-motor cortex. The cortext controls body motions.

Finally, software translates the brain activity into signals that control the avatar.

But, can it do my taxes, too?

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Japan Introduces 'Second Life' Brain-Computer Interface