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.