Wednesday, August 6, 2008

I can move things with my mind

This blog vacillates between mammoth polemics of turgid prose and short links to various interesting things. This post is the latter. It seems that Emotiv Systems has designed a helmet that allows you to control action in a game with thoughts. Think hard that you want to lift a rock and you do it, concentrate your anger and evil spirits are banished. All very cool and with ramifications for all sorts of things; guiding missiles for instance. The technology still sounds fairly primitive and some amount of calibration is required, for example telling the game what your version of a push looks like from a neuron perspective. Nevertheless, this is something I have been excited about for as long as I can remember and its very exciting that it might finally be coming to fruition.

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