They can read your thoughts now. 

This article is about an astonishing method researchers employed to output audible sounds of words patience were thinking of. So I would imagine a subject with lots of wires coming out of their skull while positioned under a powerful scanning device. Scientists in another room would hear what the subject is thinking from a little speaker. It reminds me of the eureka moment when Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his partner Watson through the first prototype telephone.

"Watson, come here, I want to see you" 

The the cyborg voice can be heard at this link, another BBC news service report. The first thirty seconds are the actual audio from the researchers labs. If you listen to it you may agree with me that it sounds exactly like the Sci-Fi movie interpretations in films. It's kind of a scary sound, ghostly and high tech. The ghost in the machine perhaps.

While "mind reading" is not one of the core technologies needed for the cyborg revolution to take off it does represent a significant step toward cyborgization. The human mouth and vocal cords would very very difficult to replicate in an electro-mechanical form. A three inch speaker for a mouth seems kind of lame so the logical technologies for cyborg citezens to communicate with would naturaly be through thought.

Imagine. You see a pretty cyborg on the bus and you work up the nerve to open a "com" channel to attract her attention. That analogy might be a bit twenty first century since there is no reason cyborgs would maintain two different sexes or rely on others to fend off loneliness.

"Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of. The method may in future help comatose and locked-in patients communicate." ~ BBC UK News Service