Touchscreens have already become a standard for smartphones and tablets. Gone are the golden years of physical keyboards with ten numbers that forced us to have to repeat the same number to enter a letter. The future could be the control of tablets and smartphones with brain waves, and this is precisely what Samsung.
Samsung, the South Korean company, is currently working on research, which they are developing in collaboration with the University of Texas, which aims to find a solution to control tablets by means of brain waves.
For now, what they have managed to create is a helmet that is used to measure brain waves, thus converting them into a signal that the tablet is capable of recognizing and executing. The goal would be to get a helmet that is much more practical and not so uncomfortable. However, at the moment everything is in a very initial phase, so we cannot know what they will achieve.
Some of the people who could benefit the most from this type of technological advance would be the disabled, who do not have the opportunity to interact with the tablet in a common way, but who would see it possible to use the tablet through brain waves. You only need to focus on a specific point on the tablet, thus being able to click on an icon of it. It is true that currently it works with a delay of five seconds, necessary to be able to make sure that the actions are executed correctly.
We do not know when this type of tablet management system could become a reality. However, it is possible that the new smart glasses contribute to the future, in such a way that eye movement recognition, for example, is much simpler, since a front camera would not be necessary on the tablet itself, but simply a sensor on smart glasses.
