Delhi-born Arnav Kapur's Artificial Intelligence-enabled headset, which "augments human cognition and gives voice to those who have lost their ability to speak", has been named as one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2020 by Time. Kapur, a 25-year-old post-doctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invented the device called AlterEgo at the MIT Media Lab. Time described AlterEgo as something which "doesn't read your thoughts, but it can enable you to communicate with your computer without touching a keyboard or opening your mouth". The wearer of AlterEgo has to first formulate the question in their mind to use the headset, "a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface", to carry out a simple task like Googling the weather on your laptop. "The headset's sensors read the signals that formulation sends from your brain to areas you'd trigger if you had said the query aloud, like the back of your tongue and palate," Time said.

It's date night and you are at a lovely restaurant sitting across from your date enjoying idle chit-chat. "Ask me anything, anything at all! I have the answer to all questions!" "Okay…well, how long is the longest cave in the world?" "Mammoth Cave National Park is an American national park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. You glaze over as she drones off fact after fact about this cave for quite some time. "…which is nearly twice as long as the second-longest cave system, Mexico's Sac Actun underwater cave."

Imagine if you had a version of Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant inside your head, capable of feeding you external information whenever you required it, without you needing to say a single word and without anyone else hearing what it had to say back to you. An advanced version of this idea is the basis for future tech-utopian dreams like Elon Musk's Neuralink, a kind of connected digital layer above the cortex that will let our brains tap into hitherto unimaginable machine intelligence. Arnav Kapur, a postdoctoral student with the MIT Media Lab, has a similar idea. And he's already shown it off. The current AlterEgo device prototype looks a bit like one of those popstar Britney mics, as imagined by the designers of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV show.

The world of artificial intelligence is changing, adapting, and developing new technologies every day. Technology advancements that were once thought to be the stuff of science fiction are now commonplace; this sort of rapid technology development will only continue to grow as teams of scientists, technicians, and others working in the artificial intelligence fieldwork on new and exciting projects. The wearable AI market is predicted to rise from USD 35 billion in 2018 to around USD 180 billion by 2025, according to a 2019 Global Market Insights, Inc. report. One of the more exciting and daunting possibilities in the relatively near future is the idea that wearable artificial intelligence may someday change our lives–and our intelligence–forever. Let's take a closer look at the possibilities behind wearable AI and how it will change the world as we know it.

Imagine that your team is meeting to decide whether to continue an expensive marketing campaign. After a few minutes, it becomes clear that nobody has the metrics on-hand to make the decision. You chime in with a solution and ask Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa to back you up with information: "Alexa, how many users did we convert to customers last month with Campaign A?" and Alexa responds with the answer. You just amplified your team's intelligence with AI. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

We recently came across a wearable that is capable of reading people's minds. Experimenting with new form factors and interfaces, the Dr Xavier type of device allows the wearer to control devices and ask queries without speaking. Called AlterEgo, the wearable tech device, designed by researchers at MIT's Media Lab, can transcribe words that wearers verbalise internally. Simply put, the invention uses electrodes attached to the skin to capture words inside the wearer's head. "Our idea was: could we have a computing platform that's more internal, that melds human and machine in some ways, and that feels like an internal extension of our cognition?" said Arnav Kapur, who led the Intelligence Augmentation research of the Silent Computer Interface system at MIT's Media Lab.

News about Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related research areas. Controlling your gadgets by talking to them is so 2018. In the future, you will not even have to move your lips. A prototype device called AlterEgo, created by Arnav Kapur, a 23-year old MIT Media Lab graduate student, is already making this possible. With Kapur's device -- a 3-D-printed plastic doodad that looks kind of like a skinny white banana attached to the side of his head -- he can flip through TV channels, change the colors of lightbulbs, make expert chess moves, solve complicated arithmetic problems, and order a pizza, all without saying a word or lifting a finger.

Looks like a new technology is going to give Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and all other digital assistants a run for their money. A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a wearable device that can read its wearer's mind. Earlier this week, MIT Media Lab published a YouTube video that introduces a device called AlterEgo. The device is worn around the right ear and it has a tail of some sort that extends all the way to the jaw area. The beauty of the system is it allows the user to converse with it without talking because communication takes place in the mind.

SILENTLY think of a question and I will answer it. That might sound like a magic trick, but it is the promise of AlterEgo, a headset that lets you speak to a computer without ever uttering a sound. It's not quite a mind reader, but it is close. The device brings us a step closer to a world where we can interact seamlessly with machines using only our thoughts. AlterEgo's creators believe that rather than embarrassingly saying things like "OK Google" or "Hey Siri" and then …