Scientists are working on plans to ‘hack’ into Stephen Hawking’s brain to enable him to communicate more easily.
The Oxford-born physicist, pictured, has been trying out the iBrain device, developed by Prof Philip Low, of Stanford University in the US. It picks up brain waves and sends them to a computer for analysis.
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