I have often quipped that "Web 3.0" will involve a direct connection from the user's brain to the internet - and we're getting closer all the time...

Fugeddabout speech recognition, start working on thought recognition!

The Emotiv SDK including an SDK headset is now available for immediate license.

This thought-conversion technology is composed of some extremely sophisticated software and a piece of headgear that looks like a cross between a telephone headset and a skeletal bike helmet. Embedded in the headset are 16 electrodes that press lightly on my scalp, monitoring the electrical signals generated by the 3 pounds of toothpaste-like goo sealed in my skull. The signals are my brain waves, the stuff of thought and emotion. The headset passes the signals to the software, which extracts patterns that can be used to control anything that's run by electronics.

(Inc. Magazine)