I highly encourage you to read the entire article at CNET, but here is a quick rundown and a link to the video. This crosses the line of awesome and walks in the land of Damned Spiffy.
Several witnesses watched two movie trailers and allowed measurements to be taken. Based on that, the interpreted brain activity was translated into images - scientist's best reproduction of what that person was seeing. Once in a while I can't quite see it, but on certain images it's immediately clear what the subjects are looking at.
I'm going to put my Big Brother rants aside for a moment and just applaud the advances in decoding the brain. There will be hundreds of breakthroughs before it even approaches reliable science, but in the meantime how exciting it is to take those first wobbly steps towards a deeper understanding of how we work.
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