(Image Source: Project Black Mirror)

BY ERIK SHUTE AND CHRISTINA HARTMAN
ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY

Can Siri read your mind? That’s what hackers Ollie and Josh claimed when they began the Black Mirror Project.

Their realm of technology falls into a field called Electroencephalography or EEG for short.

Check out Project Black Mirror’s video to see how it works.
 

Problem is-- the big experiment is now widely reported to be-- a big hoax. A writer for Macgasm caught on pretty quick, taking a close look at the screenshot posted by the hackers-- the tech blogger says-- hello-- red flag-- the Speakjet chip wasn’t hooked up to anything.

“I wonder if the Project Black Mirror team is sitting there, laughing at all the journalists who they duped into publishing this video as fact. Moral of the story: Tech journalists aren’t engineers, even if they do try to play one on the Internet.”

As for those who were duped- they’re left red in the face. A Cult of Mac blogger admits--

“I’m usually pretty skeptical, but I fell for this one hard...this was just a lie from start to finish, a bunch of blinking lights hooked up to an iPhone 4S to scam Kickstarters out of their money...Absolutely shameful, and I’m sorry I fell for it.”

But professionals in the field called their bluff from the get-go.

In this video, the duo hoped to hype the project up on Kickstarter, but Trevor Coleman a founders and COO of EEG tech-company InteraXon said if this were real they would be getting a lot more attention.

“If someone really had invented something like this, they wouldn’t be posting it on YouTube, they’d be meeting with their patent attorney... Honestly, if this was a real thing they could raise $10M overnight. They wouldn’t need to crowdsource.”

To that end, the project has yet to appear on the crowdsource startup website. In an interview with an alleged investor PR rep Nancy Morello, the two explain why.

On November 22nd the team posted on their blog, they “can't reveal who's funding us just yet... When we can, you'll be the first to know!”