The first known case of telekinesis occurred in France with 14-year-old Angelique Cotten. On a January evening in 1846, Angelica and three of her friends were embroidering. Suddenly, a kerosene lamp was thrown into a corner. The girls blamed Angelica for everything, saying that strange things always happen in her presence.

Angelica's parents decided that they could make good money on this. They organized a show in Mortana. During the next show, the scientist Francois Arago became interested in the girl. When Arago touched the girl with his hand, he experienced a shock, as if he had touched the source electric current. Interestingly, the compass needles did not react to her presence. Most of the objects that moved under Angelica were not made of metal.

In 1888, the Italian doctor Ercole Chiaia from Naples described the abilities of one medium, Eusapia Palladino: “A woman attracts various objects to herself, like a magnet, lifts them into the air. Eusapio also plays musical instruments without touching them with his hands.”

Telekinesis

Telekinesis is the ability to influence objects with the power of the mind. Among all psychophysical phenomena, the phenomenon of telekinesis is the most intriguing.

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Some scientists believe that the impact on surrounding objects occurs due to the strongest physical fields. It is worth noting that telekinesis generates pulsed fields of electromagnetic origin, and sometimes acoustic signals. There is another opinion, according to which, the impact occurs due to mental effort. In this case, thought is considered as an intangible substance capable of influencing material entities.

Studying this phenomenon is difficult because it rarely occurs in a pronounced form, and the subjects are not able to explain how they do it.

Scientists say that experiments on telekinesis cannot be carried out for a long time, since its manifestation is associated with the strongest energy stress, which can be harmful to health. During telekinesis, mental processes are activated and blood pressure rises. After the end of the experiment, the subject for a long time comes to a normal mental and physical state.

It is noted that telekinesis, like many other superpowers, appears as a result of stress and electric shocks. This, in turn, confirms the theory of the hidden reserves of the human brain.

The Austrians Willy and Rudi Schneider, forced the handkerchief to rise into the air, during the flight it changed shape, as if there was a hand inside it: fingerprints were clearly visible. Objects during the sessions of the Schneider brothers moved around the room, but no one touched them. The famous writer Thomas Mann watched as a bell lying on the floor rose by itself into the air and rang. Psychologist Albert Freiherr conducted a total of 120 experiments to study the abilities of Willy and Rudy.

Boris Ermolaev - Soviet cinematographer picked up various objects, held them in his hands and let go. Objects hung in space. There are photographs that clearly show the hanging of cigarettes and boxes of matches. The most interesting thing is that Ermolaev could hang matches in the air that fell out of the box.

Geller effect

The "Geller effect" became known to scientists who observed Uri Gellerr, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1946. Four-year-old Uri could bend metal spoons and forks with his mind. In 1972, physicists Russell Targ and Harold Putoff of the Stanford Institute became interested in Uri Geller. Scholars were impressed by Geller's clairvoyant ability. They said that he read minds and bends metal objects with his eyes.

Today, telekinesis is being studied at Princeton University (USA) under the guidance of Professor Robert Jahn. Scientists have proven that a person with his psyche is able to influence material objects. Thousands of experiments, in which hundreds of people participated, prove that telekinesis is not a fantasy. A group of subjects is tasked with mentally influencing the oscillation of a pendulum, which is placed under a glass cap. Five out of a hundred subjects do this at any time, the rest - on separate occasions.

Scientists are sure that each of us is endowed with this ability, it's just that it is in a latent state.

The difficulty of developing an unambiguous opinion about all kinds of paranormal and extrasensory abilities that some people supposedly possess is that there is simultaneously a certain number of inexplicable phenomena, and the inconsistency of these phenomena with scientific point vision. That is, a number of cases that are commonly called supernatural occur, but they do not fit into the framework necessary for science to recognize them as valid. One of brightest examples This is the problem of telekinesis.

And yet they move?

There is enough a large number of described and documented cases where people have shown their telekinetic abilities. Among them, one can not even consider those first and initially widely publicized cases of moving objects by spirits and ghosts at spiritualistic sessions of the second half of XIX- the beginning of the 20th century.

There were no scientific rules of observation then, and almost always they were more or less clever cases of fraud.

We are talking about those already recorded in recent decades and carried out either with a large gathering of observers, or even in the conditions of scientific experiments, manifestations of telekinesis. The well-known Israeli illusionist Uri Geller, who already in the seventies of the last century actively appeared on television with demonstrations of telekinetic abilities - the main number of his sessions was changing the shape of a spoon with just the power of thought . True, representatives of the professional community of illusionists claim that this is a simple trick, but Geller himself, who has received great popularity, says that he is ready to undergo the necessary scientific research regarding the authenticity of his telekinesis.

Of the more modern cases, a German of Polish origin, Miroslav Mogola, who began with simpler manifestations of paranormal abilities, such as attracting metal, wooden, plastic and other objects to his body, like a magnet, is heard. In the nineties, he began to appear on television programs with demonstrations of already real telekinesis, lifting objects from the surface with the power of thought and making them soar in the air. There is still no consensus regarding the mechanism of manipulation of the Mughals: skeptics are again convinced that this is a clever trick, but there is no generally accepted exposure yet.

The opinion of science: telekinesis is impossible, but the cases are interesting ...

But perhaps the most famous example of the manifestation of telekinesis was the experiments widely covered in the press and passed in the USSR in the 1960s - 1980s with the participation of Ninel Kulagina. In addition, Kulagina's influence on objects is not even a case of telekinesis, that is, a simple movement of things, but psychokinesis. Since in the course of the experiments, she not only moved various objects over some surface with the power of thought, but also moved them through the air (for example, matchboxes or pieces of sugar); changed the acidity of the water; changed the frequency of contraction and completely stopped the frog's heart; separated egg yolk and white immersed in water from each other; left a certain visual image on the photographic plate and the like.

Considering that this is the only case when a person performs such actions with a similar effect under the conditions of a strictly scientific experiment, the Kulagina phenomenon can be considered almost the only case when one can speak more or less seriously about telekinesis.

But even in this case, skeptical opinions prevail among scientists: doubts are expressed about the quality of ongoing scientific research, is declared again about fraud and manipulation like the actions of magicians. However, on this moment there is no convincing evidence that Kulagina resorted to some tricks during the experiment. However, this does not prevent the scientific community as a whole from rejecting the very possibility of the objective existence of telekinesis. Scientists say that individual, currently inexplicable cases, such as the Kulagina phenomenon, will find their solution with the development of science or as all the circumstances of these cases are revealed, but meanwhile they pay attention to the fundamental contradiction of telekinesis with the most scientific picture of world perception.

Since telekinesis involves the impact on objects of a certain force, which in the conditions of the Earth implies only four types of interaction - weak nuclear, strong nuclear, gravitational and electromagnetic. In the case of strong and weak nuclear interaction, telekinesis is impossible - the radius of influence is too small and simply will not allow a person to somehow influence objects located at a distance from him. Gravitational interaction is also not an assistant, because the gravitational charge of a person under conditions earth's atmosphere extremely insignificant. Electromagnetic influence again, it is not able to lead to such results: there are simply no sources found in the human body electric charges such power. As a result, from the point of view of science, a person simply has nothing to carry out telekinesis or psychokinesis.

Phenomenal abilities have always accompanied the development of mankind in its history. Legends and myths are full of legends about clairvoyance and the gift of materialization, telekinesis and the possibilities of miraculous healings, the prediction of the future which some unique people possessed - people who spent decades on yoga classes, or developed these magical powers traveling through the sacred places of ancient civilizations, or those who received this magical gift from above.

Psychokinesis("psyche" - "soul", "breath"; "kinesis" - "movement"), or telekinesis(literally: “movement at a distance”) is a concept that is commonly used to denote a person’s ability to influence material objects without using their physical organs. The term psychokinesis is often used in the form of the word "Psychokineticism".

The concept of "telekinesis" was first used by a Russian researcher paranormal activity A.N. Aksakov (who was the nephew of the famous writer S.T. Aksakov) back in 1890. The author of the term “psychokinesis” is the American author and publisher Henry Holt (“On the Cosmic Relations”, 1914), but the term was made famous by the American parapsychologist J. Rine in 1934. Both terms are synonymous and are used to refer to the same phenomena.

Nineteenth century spiritualism

For the first time in the history of mankind, they started talking about psychokinetism - telekinesis in the second half of the 19th century during the heyday of mediumship and spiritualism.

The most famous in this field was the Englishman Daniel Home (1833-1886), or "Hum" as they called him then in Russia. Home is considered the prototype of the protagonist of R. Browning's poem "Mr. Slyak, "medium"". This unique person born in Scotland and brought up in the United States of America, then returned to England in 1855.

His extraordinary psychic powers became apparent even in childhood. Home amazed contemporaries with its diversity incredible abilities- he acted as a clairvoyant, then as a psychokinetist, etc. Eyewitnesses said that at the performances they heard an inexplicable knock and amazing music. From the void, hands appeared that could be touched, and objects around spontaneously moved. Demonstrating levitation, Home sometimes rose to the ceiling. In 1863, he took to the air in the presence of French Emperor Napoleon III.

He could also lengthen or shorten his body by as much as 30 cm, often urging onlookers to hold his arms and legs so that fraud could not be suspected. It happened that several people, grabbing Home by the legs, unsuccessfully tried to return the miracle worker from under the ceiling to the floor. Many of the skeptics of that time repeatedly tried to find contraptions with which the Scot allegedly fools people, but none of these whistleblowers was successful.

Home's phenomena have been observed by many famous the scholars of that time, such as the English physicist and chemist, member and president of the Royal Society of London, William Crookes. Crookes studied such phenomena extensively and repeatedly, and soon became an authority on spiritualistic phenomena. This scholar clearly and ambiguously defined that in the case of Mr. unknown to science factors."

In one of Home's experiments, in the presence of William Crookes, an accordion placed under a table at a distance from the medium played melodies by itself. A short piece of wood on the table, a meter away from Home, rose twenty-five centimeters and floated in the air for more than a minute, gently moving up and down as if on water.

It is interesting that at that time the medium himself was held by the hands - for the purity of the experiment .... There was a pencil on the table - it rose and hung with the tip down and tried to write, but fell when the die approached it. Tables that no one touched drove across the floor. Suddenly, luminous clouds appeared and Home himself unexpectedly softly flew into the air ... All this happened under normal lighting.

Around the same time, something similar to Home's "miracles" was performed by another famous medium of that era - the Italian Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918).

The era of spiritualism lasted for a very long time - from the middle of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, and manifestations of telekinesis in its turbulent times were not uncommon. Very often, spiritualistic seances were described to evoke the spirits of the dead, when plates began to rotate on the table between the hands of the mediums, and the tables began to move involuntarily.

Unicum Ninel Kulagina

Briefly about the biography of this phenomenal woman. Ninel Kulagina (1926 - 1990) went to the front at a young age, fought, was seriously wounded and then underwent several complex operations. After that, for the rest of her life, Kulagina experienced exacerbations of serious diseases. Maybe in this episode of her life lies the source of amazing powers that were discovered in her later?

Kulagina was an ordinary housewife, she lived with her husband in Leningrad and discovered her amazing abilities by accident. It is not exactly known how she first discovered this gift in herself, but already in the mid-60s, the “phenomenon of Ninel Kulagina” began to gain more and more popularity. In 1968, black-and-white films made in the USSR with experiments on telekinesis with her participation were shown to Western experts and caused a sensation.

It makes sense to give a large fragment of a conversation about telekinesis with the founder of Russian radar Hero Socialist Labor Academician Yu.B. Kobzarev, who participated in the experiments of Kulagina more than once. At the beginning of the conversation, the academician said that the first assumption in an attempt to explain the phenomenon of psychokineticism was the presence of a strong electrostatic field in Kulagina, which “moves” objects.

We calculated the parameters of a field that would be capable of moving small objects. The magnitude of the voltage of the electrostatic field was found, capable of causing such mechanical force. Both me and Professor B.3. Katselenbaum - we made the calculations a little differently - we got very large values ​​\u200b\u200b- hundreds of kilovolts.

For the next visit of the Kulagins, I prepared an electrostatic voltmeter. Kulagina, without touching the metal cap of the fountain pen, forced it to move across the table, and the needle of the electrometer did not even flinch. It turns out that the amazing phenomenon cannot be explained by a simple electrostatic interaction?!

In addition to telekinesis, Ninel Sergeevna demonstrated to those who wished the ability to cause heating of the skin at the point of contact with her hand. However, heating occurred even without any contact. This phenomenon interested the professor of Moscow State University Braginsky. He endured pain longer than others. As a result, the scab at the site of the burn did not go away for several days. Professor Gulyaev told me that when he asked Kulagin to save him from an attack of lumbar sciatica, she warmed his lower back until it turned red.

Then the scientists assumed that Kulagina was acting by the forces of the field of acoustic nature and prepared the appropriate equipment.

We started our experiments with a condenser microphone, as it is more sensitive. As soon as Kulagina brought her hands closer to the matchbox and tensed, pulses appeared on the oscilloscope screen ... and immediately everything disappeared. The microphone has lost sensitivity.

Having disassembled it, we saw that it was "broken" - its membrane was welded to the base. The microphone was soon corrected, but again a failure: the sound impulses were so strong that the condenser microphone could not withstand them. The ceramic microphone worked flawlessly. During the movement of the matchbox, he gave out erratic impulses with very steep fronts. Kulagina's hands emitted ultrasound! It was a great discovery that literally shook our imagination.

It should be noted that the manifestation of the phenomena of telekinesis required from Kulagina a great effort of all forces. The researchers noted that objects always did not start moving immediately and Kulagina needed from several minutes to almost an hour of tension, half an hour of several attempts to cause movement. After unsuccessful attempts, she needed rest and relaxation. Sometimes the tension was such that the woman began to experience headaches, nausea, and even vomiting. It must be said that at the end of her life, Ninel Kulagina lost her amazing abilities and in several experiments in the 80s did not show the power of telekinesis.

In Investigating Psychics, Larry Kettlekamp claims that Kulagina (who has been studied by 40 scientists, including two Nobel laureates) repeatedly demonstrated the ability to set in motion static objects, change the trajectory of moving objects, leave images on photographic plates, separate the yolk from the white of a broken egg in water, etc.

It is alleged that there was such a case: in order to make sure that the experiment was not affected by external electromagnetic forces, the subject was placed in a metal box, where she, in particular, managed to separate the marked match from the total mass of matches under a glass cap. Once she was able to move a glass decanter weighing 553 grams.

Perhaps the most famous experiment involving Kulagina was carried out on March 10, 1970 in a Leningrad laboratory with the participation of physiologist Dr. Gennady Sergeev. According to eyewitness reports, in the course of experiments recorded on film, Kulagina psychokinetically affected the frog's heart, separated from the body: first, she changed the pulse in both directions, then stopped the heart.

At the same time, Dr. Sergeev, who observed Kulagina’s condition, noted drastic changes the electrical parameters of the subject's brain, an increase in her own pulse to 240 beats per minute, and other unusual effects. The results of numerous studies of the Kulagina phenomenon were positive and negative at the same time.

On the one hand, scientists were convinced that Kulagina's telekinesis is not a trick or a deception, and it is impossible to deny the existence of the phenomenon of telekinesis. On the other hand, it was not possible to give any justified scientific interpretation of this phenomenon, which exposed modern natural science in an unfavorable light and belittled his claims to understanding the comprehensive picture of the universe ...

The phenomenon of Uri Geller

Today the most famous person, repeatedly demonstrating the possibilities of telekinz and psychokinetism is Uri Geller (Uri Geller). This Israeli became famous in November 1973 when he appeared on a talk show on the BBC, after which the whole country started talking about psychokinesis the next day. Then Geller, in the recent past, a showman from an Israeli nightclub, made a statement that he was able to change physical properties, the state and shape of material objects, and as evidence he "curved" a spoon, just rubbing it with his fingers.

During his more than 30-year career as a "professional unique", Uri Geller dozens of times in front of thousands of auditoriums and television cameras bent steel spoons and other objects, stopped running clocks and started long-broken chronometers...

Once even stopped the famous London Big Bend. But, I must say, in the history of Uri Geller's performances there were failures when he was unable to realize his strength in front of a large audience and suffered a fiasco.

So, for example, it was on the air of American television in the Johnny Carson show. These facts gave reason to skeptics to talk about magic and trickery, which he passes off as paranormal phenomena.

The point here is that, as in the case of Ninel Kulagina, phenomenal powers are not easy for Geller, and the period of his noisy television and stage performances ended in a serious decline in vitality, nervous exhaustion and severe depression.

Today Uri Geller lives in London and only occasionally agrees to demonstrate his amazing abilities. As in the case of Ninel Kulagina, scientific authorities cannot explain his incredible powers...

Please note that the capabilities of Uri Geller were markedly different from those of Kulagina. Geller could bend metal objects and influence mechanisms (clocks), but he cannot move objects. And Kulagina could confidently move small objects, but she didn’t even try to bend spoons, knives and stop the clock ...

Many inquisitive scientists - enthusiasts have long been trying to penetrate the secrets of telekinesis - psychokinetism and continue to explore this phenomenon. In the early 90s, the problem of telekinesis and other unusual phenomena was taken up in the Moscow non-state Foundation of Parapsychology named after. L. Vasilyeva.

Its president is Dr. Andrew Li, MD. There were no unique people like Kulagina around, so the fund's researchers decided to evoke the phenomenon of psychokinetics in a slightly different way. To increase the strength of this phenomenon and achieve its greater reproducibility, the experimenters decided to combine the efforts of several people.

There were several couches in a spacious basement with a low ceiling. They were located along the lines of the radius of the circle and people were placed on them face up and heads to the center of an imaginary circle, where there was a small table.

The purpose of the experiment and the task of the participants is to jointly cause the rotation of a small foil impeller on this table. To avoid the influence of air currents, the impeller, mounted on the tip of a vertical needle, was covered with a glass cap. The time of the experiment was long - about an hour and a half, and lying on the couch and imagining a rotating propeller behind the back of my head at the end was pretty annoying.

Causing even a slight rotation of the impeller - half a turn, for example, was extremely rare and not all groups of participants succeeded. In the group in which I participated, the rotation of the impeller could not be achieved ...

And here is the opinion of Andrey Lee himself, which he expressed in an interview:

- And what results did you achieve in these group sessions?
— In seven groups, we conducted a survey of 45 people. None of the participants had any evidence of telekinesis prior to the group sessions. This manifested itself on the same turntable installed under the cap. During the group sessions several times a positive effect was obtained and the turntable turned slowly.

Unfortunately, the activity of the Parapsychology Foundation in Moscow did not last long and practically stopped at the end of the 90s...

In the United States, the study of paranormal human powers has also been taken seriously for a long time. The Princeton Institute for Anomalous Research was established at Princeton University in the 1970s. His laboratories are engaged in the study of phenomena that turn out to be a deviation from the laws of nature, and which appear as a result of the mental influence of man.

Psychokinetic research was conducted by the Anomalous Research Laboratory, run by Dr. Robert Jahn. Laboratory researchers have once again shown that a person can influence physical objects with his psyche.

However, even this reputable scientific institution does not yet have a clear and workable theory of explaining the mechanism of telekinesis. Moreover, scientists do not have such a theory that would lead to the real practice of confident mastering the forces of telekinesis - psychokinetism.

Probably, it is precisely such marking time, when the facts are on the face, and no one succeeds in explaining them, and even more so in starting to create technologies for clear application and use, lead to natural results: dissatisfaction with sponsors and investors, as well as the complete absence of technological business - prospects. This was probably the basis for the announcement posted on the website of the Princeton Institute for Anomalous Research - that the main laboratories of the institute were closed in February 2007, and work on the study of paranormal phenomena was practically curtailed.

Personal experience of the author of the article

A feature of this article is that its author has also developed the ability to remotely influence objects and video recordings of his experiments are included in the illustrative material of the article.

Glass jar with screw cap. Under the lid, a wooden sliver is suspended on a cobweb (glued to the back of the lid), and it is balanced (so that it is horizontally located) with pieces of plasticine along the edges.

A little water is poured at the bottom of the jar - so that high humidity excludes the effects of electrostatic fields. The sliver hangs freely in a hermetically sealed jar. Neither magnets nor a strong electrostatic field from an ebonite part rubbed against wool affect a sliver - it has been checked many times.

A chip suspended in a jar does not move for days on its own - I also checked it. Then, when I bring my hands to the jar, and begin to throw out psychic energy (life force - prana or qi) from the main power channels of my hands by an effort of will, the sliver reacts to this flow and begins to turn slowly almost immediately.

Similar devices were used by academician Kozyrev in the 60s, when he tried to register hypothetical particles - chronons - with similar "torsional balances". Kozyrev generally believed that celestial bodies- these are machines for generating energy from clots of time ...

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Science in recent times draws less attention than dramatic political upheavals. Meanwhile, inside the scientific space, discoveries and technologies are ripening that will change our world much more dramatically than all politicians combined. And this new is born at the intersection of physics, biology and medicine.

For many years, telekinesis was considered something out of the realm of fantasy, or worse, charlatanism, and now it is becoming a scientific reality.
Telekinesis (“movement at a distance”) is a term used in parapsychology to denote the ability of a person to influence physical objects by the effort of thought.

In history, there are many descriptions of cases when people seemed to be able to move objects with the power of thought. Moreover, some of the phenomena were studied by dozens of reputable scientists.

For example, in the USSR, the phenomenon of Ninel Kulagina was widely known, which was not studied by anyone, even two Nobel laureates.

One of the most famous experiments with Kulagina was carried out in 1970 in the Leningrad laboratory of the physiologist Gennady Sergeev. According to eyewitness reports, in the course of experiments recorded on film, Kulagina psychokinetically affected the frog's heart, separated from the body: first, she changed the pulse in both directions, then stopped the heart. At the same time, Sergeev, who observed Kulagina's condition, noted sharp changes in the electrical parameters of the subject's brain, an increase in her own pulse to 240 beats per minute, and other unusual effects.

True, later this experiment was questioned, and the story remained unclear.

Now, however, the ability of a person to influence physical objects by the power of thought becomes an absolute reality. True, the power of thought affects physical objects through special neural interfaces.

What is a neural interface? Outwardly, it resembles headphones that, using electrodes, pick up electrical signals from the brain, process them, and send signals to a device configured to capture them.

Here is a specific neural interface-device system constructed as part of the Neurotech project at the Fablab of the Polytechnic University: a person puts on the neural interface, concentrates, the neural interface picks up the brain’s alpha rhythm, and in the “samovar” tuned to this neural interface, a tap opens and the glass begins to fill.

A few words about Fablab. This is an international non-profit networking project that was born in 2002 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Professor Neil Gershenfeld organized a course for students called "How to do almost anything."

As part of the training, students had to master the modern equipment of the MIT laboratory to implement their scientific projects. The course turned out to be incredibly popular, with expensive equipment being used to implement ideas that had nothing to do with diplomas and coursework.

It turned out that students have a great need to have an open workshop where they can learn to make unusual and strange things with their own hands. And so the first Fablab was born. An open studio-workshop for curious enthusiasts of everything unusual and non-standard.

Among the first projects were such as, for example, a bag for shouting. If you really want to scream in a public place, but you can’t, you can yell into this absolutely soundproof bag, it will record your scream, and then in a deserted place or at home you can reproduce it and release your emotion at will.

Today, Fablabs operate in 100 countries on all continents. As a rule, they open during training and scientific centers and primarily focused on students.

But by no means necessary. In principle, any group of enthusiasts who have some kind of tools, raw materials and design experience can open their own FabLab. They say, for example, that Fablab in Afghanistan is engaged in the construction of towers for broadcasting wi-fi from metal waste from landfills.

Fablabs are networked and exchange ideas and experiences. The principle of operation is simple - anyone can come, tell about their project and get access to equipment, raw materials and expert advice. You will have to pay for the use of machines and raw materials (at a minimum), consultations are free.

The Fab Lab at the Polytechnic University opened a little over a year ago, in April 2013.

Every day, dozens of enthusiasts gather here not only from the Polytechnic University, but also from other universities, and just enthusiasts - whether schoolchildren or pensioners. Within the framework of Fablab, three week-long schools have already passed, when the most interesting projects and during the week of hard work, these projects are implemented and presented to the audience.

At the last week-long school 60 people gathered, it is interesting that a quarter of them were from other countries.

Fablab's specifics different countries different. Russian projects are more technical, European ones are more likely with a bias towards design.

For example, here are some of the projects implemented in Fablab. If you put on a special glove connected to this artificial hand, then this hand will begin to repeat all your movements.

This special track can be driven by two toy cars, tuned and controlled by two different types brain impulses.

And this is a children's toy - a catapult dinosaur.

The rat swan (or some other rodent?) is a non-standard piece of furniture.

It is not surprising that the project to create a neural interface also took root on Fablab. Vitaliy Zubchenko, an enthusiast for this project, came here last year and quickly found mutual language with the organizers of Fablab.

Vitaly says that his interest in the topic was born from the realization of the fact that mankind has come up with a lot of tools for physical development, but with the development of cognitive abilities it is more and more difficult - all tools are indirect, not direct.

According to Vitaliy, the emergence of household neurointerfaces is, among other things, new opportunities for interacting with the outside world, developing and supplementing our natural abilities - for example, the development of the ability to concentrate, which is especially relevant in our time of countless streams of various stimuli.

In addition, the neural interface is a typical territory of an interdisciplinary space, which additionally attracts many enthusiasts. Among the participants in the project to create a neural interface are mechanics, electronics engineers, programmers, a neuroscientist and a designer. So far, we have not been able to find specialists in neurophysiology ... So, if there are interested neurophysiologists, please contact us.

The main thing that Vitaly would like to achieve is to create his own neural interface, and not to adapt the existing American and Australian ones to his needs.

The neural interface consists of electrodes that collect signals from different areas of the brain, a miniature center that processes signals and transforms them into control commands. It is clear that the main part of the neural interface is the transformer electrical activity(powers of thought) into control commands that cause devices to perform certain physical actions.

And it is in this area that the competition between developers of neurointerfaces - neurophysiologists, programmers and engineers - is going on.

However, and right choice the location of the electrodes that collect the electrical signals of the brain is also important. Vitaly would like to create an interface with movable electrodes that could be fixed in different areas of the brain.

Here, in Fablab, the team has already made a prototype of a toy race track for two machines, each of which is controlled by the power of thought. Moreover, the algorithm was chosen such that one person could control both machines, only for each machine he had to activate a certain algorithm of brain activity.

Toys and devices of this kind are also effective simulators that can help a person train the control of different modes of the brain.

If now people, in order to learn how to stimulate and regulate the alpha rhythm (one of the most productive modes of brain operation), master the techniques of autogenic training and self-hypnosis, then with the help of neural interfaces they will be able to do this much faster, more clearly and more efficiently.

The "samovar" constructed here can already be used today as an alpha-rhythm simulator - after all, the signal strength to which the device reacts can be easily changed. As Vitaly says, the results of managing the "samovar" turn out to be very different. Someone can start the device the first time and easily achieves an increase in the alpha rhythm if the device is reconfigured to trigger on a stronger signal. And someone cannot start the device by any means - a person cannot control his alpha rhythm.

The technology of activation of the alpha-rhythm itself has not yet completely settled down. During the presentation of the device in Kazan, it turned out, for example, interesting thing: if the participant of the experiment began to read poems in the Tatar language, which he did not understand, the alpha rhythm became more active, and the device was started.

Another method is visualization, the presentation of certain pictures. Apparently, there is a significant spread between people - in one person the alpha rhythm is activated in one way, in the other - in another way.

Imagine a picture of the future, when several people can, for example, cooperate by combining their powers of thought, controlling some important device, or, on the contrary, compete for control, using only their power of thought - an arbitrary ability to increase or decrease the rhythms of their brain activity. It's really a different world.

In the meantime, an amazing spectacle awaits us not somewhere in remote time distances, but during the opening of the World Cup in Brazil.

June 12 will be the opening of the World Cup. A paralyzed person in a wheelchair should appear on the field, get up from it, take a few steps and hit the ball, starting the championship. The person will be dressed in a robotic exoskeleton controlled using a neural interface - that is, in fact, driven by force thoughts.

The world-famous Brazilian neuroscientist Mikel Nicolelis undertook to realize this grandiose idea and is now feverishly finalizing the exoskeleton - his invention.

If everything goes well, then Nicolelis will become the new hero of science and it will be possible to talk about the discovery new era synthesis of man and machine.

Tatyana Chesnokova

It's no secret that the average person uses less than 10% of their brain power. However, the most patient and responsible ones are able to develop their own abilities without limit - even into the realm of the supernatural. A person can, memory, and even some that are not given to everyone. Many in the course of working on themselves are wondering how to learn telekinesis.

Does telekinesis exist?

Despite the fact that we live in the 21st century, the question of how to develop telekinesis, for most, sounds a little strange, implausible and more like a joke. However, despite the mass of TV shows in which such a superpower was demonstrated, there are still no scientific studies that would confirm the real existence of such a possibility itself. In other words, everything that was shown on a TV show has always been a banal trick with a fishing line or a magnet. That is why the main secret of telekinesis at the present time is still its very existence.

Can telekinesis be learned?

This question also does not have a clear answer. It will be possible to determine whether it is possible to learn telekinesis only if its very existence is proved and experiments are carried out during which it will be determined whether this is possible or not. At the moment, such experiments have not been carried out, that is, there is no scientific data on this subject.

However, if you do a good search on the Internet, you can find a lot of articles on how to train telekinesis. In addition, it is easy to find feedback from people who have engaged in such practices and even achieved results, but there is also no scientific confirmation that these people are not lying.

That is why the only real way to learn how to learn telekinesis and whether it is possible at all, is the regular practice of various techniques and experiment on oneself.

Telekinesis Exercises

If you are seriously thinking about how to learn telekinesis at home, first of all, get ready not to expect quick results and practice every day. This is the key to success, which is highlighted by almost all people who claim to know how to use telekinesis. Try these exercises:

Do not show the first results, do not report on your studies until real changes are made. This will allow you not to mix in someone else's energy and really do "for yourself." The first three exercises should be performed within a month, the last two - until the results are obtained. When it's easy, make it harder for yourself.