The device, called AlterEgo, can transcribe words that wearers verbalise internally but do not say out loud, using electrodes attached to the skin.
“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 own cognition?”
I think MIT’s new AlterEgo headset still falls into the category “Devices and Gadgets” of When does technological enhancement feel natural and acceptable? But it’s still a pretty nice step forward.