Mobile Devices Using Mind-Control Being Tested by Samsung, University of Texas Study

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Samsung is joining forces with an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Dallas to work on a device which could allow you to control your smartphone or tablet computer with your brain. According to Susan Young of the MIT Technology Review, the device in question is an electroencephalography (EEG) cap which could be used to launch an application, select a specific person out of a list of contacts or a song from a certain playlist, or even turn on/off a mobile device.

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