Because I am a completely unreasonable person, I'm constantly cursing at my computer for not knowing which application I want to be typing on. Or that it doesn't know that I want it to switch to whatever program I hover my cursor over when, say, I've got two monitors and I'm switching back and forth between multiple applications. Or that it can't just read my mind and then do all my work for me. Thanks to these hyper-nerds at Berkeley, computers are like three-quarters of one step closer to facilitating that stuff:

“Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password,” explains a UC Berkeley School of Information press release about new research that utilizes brainwaves to authenticate users instead of passwords of numbers and letters. With a $100 consumer-friendly brainwave-reading headset, the Neurosky MindSet, Professor John Chuang found that the mere task of concentrating on one’s breath was enough to uniquely identify them.

Brainwave devices, or Electroencephalograms, are not at all a new technology, although this application is obviously in early development. TechCrunch, who also points out that these systems are not immune to hacking, has this video that demonstrates a totally practical use: the Necomimi, which, according to the marketing guy in the video, means "cat ears" in Japanese. It's, like, the future, man. Only with furries.