Just today I was thinking how cool it would be to reply to a text message just by thinking out the reply (I kid you not!) While this is not the aim or intended purpose of the research covered here, I imagine it may be a reality one day too. Tom Hale IFLScience: A new project has created a "brain-computer interface" that can translate brainwaves into text. While there are a few caveats to the research and there's still plenty of fine-tuning to do, the system can currently translate neural activity into text with error rates as low as 3 percent, not far off a professional-level speech transcription. In the not too distant future, the "mind-reading" technology could be developed to help people who are unable to speak, such as those with locked-in syndrome. Reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco trained a group of artificial neural networks (a set of algorithms modeled on human brain function) to associate neural signals