Explaining Brain Network Technology to the president (photo credit: screen capture Channel 10)
The tour continues with a display from Brain Network Technology’s program, developed in conjunction with Ben Gurion University of the Negev, which allows noninvasive monitoring of brain functionality.
President Shimon Peres arrives on the scene, apparently unexpectedly, and participates in a meeting, along with the president and Netanyahu, with star students in the high-tech field. Peres showcases an initiative designed to enable Israeli Arab engineers and other academics, “many of them unemployed,” he says, to get involved in Israeli high-tech. “It’s inspiring,” says Obama.
Next up, the MinDesktop, which allows brainwaves to control a standard computer operation system without the need of a mouse or keyboard. Designed to help the handicapped, the system was developed by three graduate students using off-the shelf parts. Netanyahu and Obama muse on how effectively this would work for them. “Our thoughts aren’t that sophisticated,” Obama pronounces.
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