The social network giant, Facebook has announced its upcoming projects focused on building new capabilities for communication which will allow users type through their minds and hear with their skin. A technology that could let people fire off text messages or emails by thinking, instead of needing to interrupt what they are doing to use smartphone touchscreens, for example.

The projects were unveiled recently at Facebook’s F8 developer conference.

Facebook’s VP of Engineering, Regina Dugan while addressing participants at the Conference quizzed how interesting it will be if we could all type directly from our brain into a computer.

Her words: “Speech is essentially a compression algorithm and a lousy one at that. That is why we love great writers and poets because they are just a little bit better at compressing the fullness of a thought into words. What if we could type directly from our brain into a computer?” Dugan is tasked with building F8 which is responsible for coming up with innovative hardware for the social network’s mission of connecting the world.

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