Memory Glasses
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Posted by Fotopoulou Sophia in Science section |
Spectacles with tiny clip-on LCD screens that flash subliminal messages could boost your memory, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The “memory glasses” are connected to a wearable computer which creates messages about people and objects in the field of view and flashes them up on the transparent screen for 0.005 seconds.
In tests, volunteers seated at desktop computers first had two minutes to memorise the names associated with 21 faces displayed on the screen. They then had to correctly match faces with names while their memory glasses flashed subliminal suggestions, such as the right or wrong names, or nothing at all.
Volunteers cued with the right names did better by at least 50 per cent than those given bad cues or no cues. Scientists hope the spectacles will one day help people suffering from amnesia or prosopagnosia - a disorder in which people cannot recognise faces.
