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Hackers Control Siri With Their Minds [Video]

Hackers Control Siri With Their Minds [Video]

Posted November 11, 2011 at 7:21pm by iClarified
Update:
Greg Courville an undergraduate physics student at the University of California, Santa Barbara is calling this a fake.

Project Black Mirror, started by two hackers named Ollie and Josh, has found a way to control Siri using brain waves.

They record basic ECG patterns that are matched to presaved patterns for Siri commands such as "Call" or "Meeting". Once matched the command is fed to a speech synthesizer that interfaces to Siri via the microphone.


How They Did It
1. ECG pads provide raw skin conductivity / electrical activity as analogue data (0-5v).
2. This is plugged into the Arduino board via 4 analogue inputs (no activity = 0v, high activity = 5v).
3. The Arduino has a program burnt to it's EPROM chip that filters the signals.
4. Josh trained the program by thinking of the main Siri commands ("Call", "Set", "Diary" etc.) one at a time and the program where we captured the signature brain patterns they produce.
5. The program can detect the signature patterns that indicate a certain word is being thought of. The program will then wait for a natural 'release' in brain waves and assume the chain of commands is now complete and action is required.
6. The series of commands are fed to a SpeakJet speech synthesizer chip
7. The audio output of which simply plugs into the iPhone's microphone jack.

Check out the demonstration video below. Project Black Mirror is preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign which will seek additional funding for the project.

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ben
ben - November 13, 2011 at 2:15am
Just imagine if we had some geniuses like this running America...
tim
tim - November 12, 2011 at 1:57pm
lol, yes it is possible to do this. your not talking to Siri. You are associating specific brain wave patterns to a specific command. The issue is each command has to be associated individually to a preset brain wave pattern. my question is will it work for two different users? and how many times out of 10 can an person actually repeat the same signal?
jahmed80
jahmed80 - November 12, 2011 at 12:30pm
buuuuuullllllshit...!!!
dvd
dvd - November 12, 2011 at 12:12pm
i don't like the ideea that Siri can call Mary when i'm with Jane...
Shrub
Shrub - November 12, 2011 at 11:58am
EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!
Jared
Jared - November 12, 2011 at 3:06am
Clearly fake, I hope nobody actually invests money in this project...
Nobo1
Nobo1 - November 11, 2011 at 8:25pm
Freaks... Imagine controlling Siri with his bellend, that would have been a more interesting story
derp
derp - November 12, 2011 at 12:18am
looks like your caps lock is stuck on too. that sucks
vasodys
vasodys - November 11, 2011 at 8:14pm
He should have talked on the telephone using his mind. That would have convinced me
Robot
Robot - November 11, 2011 at 11:42pm
Haha I think you posted on the wrong article.
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