The cartoon convention of a bright light appearing above your head when you have an idea might not be fiction for long.  Researchers at Kinki University, who we would have thought would have been too busy developing new kinds of latex and electrical devices, have recently performed experiments in watching thoughts happen - life on TV.

AMC flourophore (3099-v Peptide Institute, Japan) is a compound that lights up in the presence of certain enzyme activities that take place in the brain.  Or to put it simply, thought = light.  Imagine the benefits - then put on shades to protect people around you from the brightness of your imagining

The combination of miniature camera and CHEMICAL THAT CONVERTS THOUGHTS INTO LIGHT mean the scientists can observe blue light whenever memories are formed in the section of brain being observed.