Robot Alert: What Are They Thinking?

Or rather, "What Are We Thinking?"

Researchers in Germany are using an MRI machine to "read" the thoughts of test subjects. Read the entire story here if you like this sort of thing, I'll try to sum it up for the rest of you.

In a nutshell, the article says, "blah blah blah, blah blah, ...we thought the evil robots of the future would appreciate having the ability to read the human mind... blah blah blah, blahbitty blahbitty, blah."

Seriously, although it's a long way from being able to read your thoughts, the scientists have been able to monitor certain parts of the brain and predict what the subject was going to choose when they were given a problem with two possible answers.

Let me know when they get a home version that will work on teenagers.