Mind-Controlled Wheelchair

carnun writes "New Scientist is reporting on the design of a new skull cap control mechanism that could lead to the supplanting of implanted electrodes for controlling wheel chairs. The new non-invasive method has been used to control a simple wheeled robots and could have lots of psychological benefits for quadruplegics."

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Re:sounds cool

[stupidsocialscientis]

as a psychologist - I have seen software that is designed to train people to elicit a certain type of brain wave pattern (e.g., beta, alpha). These devices use fairly crude caps. I suppose the wheelchair-makers may be using broad patterns such as these, rather than very neuroanatomically localized patterns, which I believe would be more subject to increased artifact as a function of movement.