We live in a world where our everyday activities rely on technology and electricity to work. Our interactions with the objects around us start from our brain, go through our physical movements, and end up changing our environment.

Emotiv, a bioinformatics company, is creating a new device that will allow humans to more fluidly access the electronic world around them. The Epoc is a multi-channel EEG system. This means that it can scan the user’s brain waves easier with a much more simplistic process. It uses a lot less electrodes, so instead of looking like a bubble rap raincoat, which is what wearing a normal EEG is like, it looks like a giant spider nested on your head. Epoc picks up the user’s brain waves, converts them into computer-understandable commands, and sends them to an electronic device via Wi-Fi.

Everyone thinks differently, so before use, the user must input their own thought patterns and match them with specific commands. This way, the next time they think those thoughts, a certain command will be triggered. Currently, Epoc can only recognize basic thoughts and perform simple commands. In a video showing its capabilities, a person using an Epoc and his thoughts causes a cube to move in a software on his computer.

“We’re looking at the tip of the iceberg. We’re looking at the computer of the ’70s,” co-founder Nam Do said. “There are definitely many ways this technology could advance.”

In another video, a man limited by his injuries uses Epoc to move his electronic-wheelchair by winking left, right and smiling. The possibilities are endless. Maybe after a few more decades of research, mind and matter will be one.