New York City-based startup CTRL-Labs is working on creating interface that can allow us to use our thoughts to communicate with computers. The technology is based on using sensors to capture and decode motor neurons (the electric signals our brain sends our muscles to get them moving) in order to turn them into direct commands that a computer can understand, neuroscientist and CTRL-Labs fonder Thomas Reardon told National Geographic in an interview, adding that he expects his tech’s most immediate impact will be on text messaging and typing. “I want to see computing break through to a different level of facility and value for people. That might sound abstract, but I really imagine things like, why do you use a keyboard to enter text into a machine? Why can’t I write a message to my wife from my pocket, with my hand still in my pocket?” he asks.