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Pentagon's $4 Million Military Telepathy Program: Silent Talk

by Jarrett Martineau | May 14, 2009 at 03:27 pm

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Now this is some next level army technology.

Silent Talk is the Pentagon's $4 million DARPA (Defense Advanced Resarch Projects) initiative to develop technology that would allow U.S. soldiers to communicate by "computer-mediated telepathy".

No PDAs, Blackberrys, iPhones — or even talking — required.

Just hands-free, voice-free, wireless, brain-to-brain communicado.

How can you compete with an army that sends messages using only the minds of its soldiers?

Is Yoda somehow involved in this Jedi training?

The Pentagon’s mad-science division Darpa...[has a] budget for the next fiscal year [that] includes $4 million to start up a program called Silent Talk. The goal is to “allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.” That’s on top of the $4 million the Army handed out last year to the University of California to investigate the potential for computer-mediated telepathy.

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Tomitheos Linardos

at 18:36 on May 14th, 2009

very interesting, the internet was once just for the military perhaps this is the future of cellphones

thanks for this post JM

Uwe Paschen

at 19:27 on May 14th, 2009

Hum, I think I want a mind reader blocking devise.

hbagwan

at 02:26 on May 15th, 2009

ereetertree

William Theuer (not verified)

at 05:12 on May 15th, 2009

I would need to have a blocking signal before seeing that hottie in my civic club.

Joe G (not verified)

at 18:34 on May 16th, 2009

This is Definitely real. Your brain gives off signals whenever you're thinking- which is at All times. Recent vigorous studies have lead scientists to understand how to home in on the signals and frequencies that your sub-vocal thought gives off. There's plenty of more reliable sources, scientific journals, and etc that will give you a more in-depth detail than my entry-level sorry ass ever could. Welcome to the new scientific era?