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The electrodes gather data by measuring electrical signals from the brain, and the decoder interprets that information and translates it into game action.

A precursor to cable, the service used a technology called Phonevision to deliver first-run movies and live sporting events through phone lines and a decoder installed in the home.

The decoder was not only capturing the gist of the original, but also producing exact matches of specific words — twenty, license.

The decoder telling him to be sure to drink his Ovaltine.

Accuracy dropped, though, as the decoder parsed out sounds in the middle or at the end of a nonsense word.