Last year I attended a science lecture about that sort of thing. The speaker was Kevin Warwick, and he had been pioneering a way of interfacing with computers through his body.

He had a computer chip plugged into him, and he was then able to, by clenching and unclenching his hand, control what went on on a computer. He could cycle through the options, and select one. He progressed this by being able to turn music on and off, turn a lamp on and off, and even control a prosthetic hand in New York (he was in Leicester at the time) all through his hand.

He then showed how he connected himself up to his wife, and she was able to feel him clenching his fist, in her hand, making her want to clench her fist.

Very interesting.

For some reason though, speech recognition doesn’t work with my voice ( lol ) so it sucked for me.

Actually, I seem to recall having seem, fairly recently (and less busy people can hunt down a link from Wired or somewhere) that human/computer interfaces where the human can control the computer with their thoughts are working in the lab. WITH THEIR THOUGHTS! It’s pretty much for the disabled, again, and so far seems to be moving a mouse cursor but that’s still really cool. What kinda worries me is that with the average human male supposedly thinking about sex once every six seconds, you’d spend all your time with bloody porn sites appearing on-screen. What you get up to at home is your problem but when they start appearing in the office while your boss walking around, then that’s a problem…

But I like the silence. As my computer is in a private place, talking to it, or even to friends, would just seem silly to me. Heck, I even hate phones!

One thing similar I tried for the first time the other day was on my friends new PDA. I was able to hand write my words in MSN, and the PDA wasn’t always good at interpreting it. That said, I was surprised at a few of the times where it got rather complicated words right. Maybe it depends on how neat I write.