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Mind-Controlled Wheelchair

Posted by michael on from the road-rage dept.

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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  1. Help - I want to get off by henrygb · · Score: 5, Funny
    At the moment the user can choose between three different commands: for example, "turn left", "turn right" and "move forward".

    "Stop" might be a useful upgrade.

  2. Bah, that's nothing. by DeadVulcan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why don't people work on making more of Stephen Hawking's exoskeleton?

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  3. I wonder what happens... by stupidsocialscientis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    when the user dreams they are moving? Similar neural areas may become active, and thus activate the wheelchair. If so, could an add-on be used to detect REM activity and incapacitate the device when the user is sleeping?

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