No this is not about psychics, its about major advances in technology that uses brain waves to tell if a person is lying or not.
Richard Jones is the director of the Christchurch Neurotechnology Research programme at the New Zealand Brain Research Institute, and a senior biomedical engineer and neuroscientist in the Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering of Canterbury District Health Board.
He tells us about a project he's been involved with a project with the Canterbury University school of law, which he describes as knowledge detector. It;s a variation of an EEG which detects those brain waves that indicate whether person being tested has knowledge of something of certain things.
