On 9 April 2013, Nic Halverson from news.discovery.com reported:
Led by John Chuang of the UC Berkeley School of Information, a team of researchers have developed a device that verifies a user’s identity with brainwaves, or electroencephalograms (EEGs). Rather than an alphanumerical text password, this new device uses a “pass-thought.” Chuang and his team developed the system with a $100 Neurosky Mindset headset that uses Bluetooth technology to authenticate a person to the computer.