TODAYonline | Focus | Science | Scientists developing device to 'hack' into brain of Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking is testing out a
groundbreaking device to allow him to
communicate through brain waves in a project that scientists have likened to "hacking into his brain".

Dr Hawking, 70, has been working with
scientists at Standford University who are
developing a the iBrain - a tool which picks upwbrain waves and communicates them
via a computer.

The scientist, who has motor neurone disease
and lost the power of speech nearly 30 years
ago, currently uses a computer to communicate
but is losing the ability as the condition
worsens, the Daily Telegraph reported.
But he has been working with Prof Philip Low,
a professor at Stanford and inventor of the
iBrain, a brain scanner that measures
electrical activity.

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TODAYonline | Focus | Science | Scientists developing device to 'hack' into brain of Stephen Hawking