I Can Read Your Mind...

...Ever had your palm read or your cards done?  Freaky, right?  Well, psychics get their hair done too, just like us normal people.  I get one in my chair and I instantly start thinking things like, "ooooohhh, grosss, wash your hair moooore, buy some producttts from meeeeeee, comb yourrr hairrrrr morrrrre, it's like a fuckingggggg ratssss nesttt..."  because I am convinced they're reading my mind while I am working on them. Who knows if they really are, but, you know.  Just in case.

Credit: Chester Wildey, University of Texas

   In the near future, there might be more "mind reading" going on, now that University of Texas, Tufts University, plus researchers in India have all been working on a Near-Infrared Spectroscopy "hair brush". In mortal terms, an instrument that asseses brain functions presently used for medical purposes.  Before the brush, it was just a head piece that patients wore.  Researchers were having difficulty with it reading through people's hair but now the've made it into a brush, it is much more efficient.  It is called "brush optrode."

  In the future, this brush may have many a purpose, since it can measure changes in brain chemistry due to moods, thoughts, etc..  Badass.  When they're available to us lesser-learned-folk, I'm going to get my filthy paws on one. Not to use on my regular clients, but just to see what mind-readie-readie is going on when a madame-cleo-wannbe is in my chair.  It's only fair.  I realize it's probably about as consequential as taking a picture of someone taking a picture of you.  Hey, whatever toasts my bagel.