For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of kilometres apart in India and France, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
Research led by experts at Harvard University shows technology can be used to transmit information from one person's brain to another's even if they are thousands of kilometres away.
"It is a kind of technological realisation of the dream of telepathy, but it is definitely not magical," Giulio Ruffini, a theoretical physicist and co-author of the research, said by phone from Barcelona.
"We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the brain."
For the experiment, one person wearing a wireless, internet-linked electroencephalogram or EEG would think a simple greeting, such as "hola" or "ciao".
A computer translated the words into digital binary code, presented by a series of 1s or 0s.
Then this message was emailed from India to France, and delivered via robot to the receiver, who through non-invasive brain stimulation could see flashes of light in their peripheral vision.
Read more of this AFP report published by The Sydney Morning Herald.