Head Hunters Intelligence agencies are testing a lie detector capable of reading minds. Russian intelligence services intend to adopt the latest technologies that make it possible to distinguish truth from lies. Lawyers, meanwhile, are insisting on a special law to regulate the reading of our thoughts. Scientists are working on an entirely new kind of lie detector, one capable of literally peering into a person’s head, spotting deception in the corners of the eyes, or exposing lies in written text. At first glance, it sounds like science fiction. But this is all very serious. We should prepare for a future in which specially trained people may be able to rummage around in our heads. Put simply, the device picks up the bioelectric signals of our brain. According to scientists, when a person tells the truth, four areas of the brain become active, but when they lie, seven do. And that is what shows up on the scanner screen. http://www.rg.ru/2008/09/16/detektor.html The main thing is that it mustn’t fall into the hands of space pirates. Otherwise, all of Kolya Gerasimov’s struggle (a reference to the Soviet sci-fi story Guest from the Future) will have been for nothing.