These 11 technologies want to hack your brains

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0/11 Replay Gallery ^[1] More Galleries ^[2] Skip^[3] SEE SLIDESHOW Picture a day where you flip through your memories like you would Facebook or Instagram, or you get a chip sewn into your brain to help you learn languages twice as fast and communicate your thoughts in an instant to millions of people. Such are the promises of so-called brain hacking technologies, and for the past couple of years, everyone from Elon Musk to DARPA scientists has been studying our noggins to get us there. How close are we and how real is any of this? The human brain is a complex beast, and it’s still early days, but we could be closer to becoming Neo in The

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