Why Facebook is investing in mind reading wristbands | Download This Show

Facebook has paid somewhere between $US500 million and $US1 billion for CTRL-Labs, a company that's created a neural interface wristband — a device that makes it possible to transmit electrical signals from the brain to a computer. So how close are we to the dream of telekinesis?

Marc Fennell is joined by Jessie Hughes, VR expert and creative technologist and Claire Reilly, Senior Editor, CNET.

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