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Brain Controlled Tightrope Video Game Shown

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tank-i-need-a-program dept.

Bob Sherpowski writes "According to CBBC News, they have come up with a 'game' that you control directly with your brain waves. University College Dublin researchers have designed a game where you are trying to get a monster to walk across a tightrope - if he leans one way or the other you have to concentrate on a box on either side of the tightrope to make him tip the other way. It's still in research and it's not for sale yet but it's the first step. "

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  1. The beginning of the end? by ChaoticChaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just can't wait for the first virus to be unleashed on something like this. Instead of the device sending OUT information, it would start sending information IN.

    In all seriousness, I'm overwhelmed with Doubleclick ads now, I don't need them being inputted directly.

    God help us if Microsoft gets ahold of this. Instead of, "Where do you want to go tomorrow", it's "What do we want you to think about today". ;-)

    Btw, what happens if you're using that device and you happen to catch a glimpse of Janet Jackson's Half Time show? Is it suddenly blown straight off your forehead? LOL!

  2. This is what the government wants!!!! by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 5, Funny

    this will train out brain waves to all be the same so they can control us with better accuracy and reliability!!!!

    DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!

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    1. Re:This is what the government wants!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't worry!

      Wil Wheaton is a /.er! So he can help fix Cmdr Data, while that girl distracts everyone, and then Data will use the blinky light thing that Wil figured out with the help of the medical computer's brain simulator to save everyone, after transporting himself around the ship a few times...

  3. Whoo! by debrain · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Matrix, v0.1.

  4. I can think of a prototype game. by blcamp · · Score: 2, Funny


    "Strip Poker"!

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    1. Re:I can think of a prototype game. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Finally, no more one handed gaming.

      Now players can keep *both* hands on the action...

    2. Re:I can think of a prototype game. by irving47 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah right, and the control set shorts out as soon as a pasty-faced geek actually sees a woman half-naked.

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  5. Bah! by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't have a brain you insensitive clod!

  6. Remember by LooseChanj · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must think *in russian*

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    1. Re:Remember by 74nova · · Score: 4, Funny
      You must think *in russian*
      why, does the game play me?
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    2. Re:Remember by appleprophet · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah, that explains why my web browser launches missiles from time to time.

  7. If the monster dies by g0bshiTe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does that mean teh player also dies, cause of the whole "what the brain thinks" issue?

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  8. It's a start but... by JosKarith · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...just wait for the first Force Feedback models

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  9. Wow! This will be great for all those games... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...where the action is confined to leaning slightly left or slightly right.

  10. silver top hat by misterpies · · Score: 1, Funny


    damn...looks like I'll have to throw out that tinfoil hat.

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  11. Cool by mystery_bowler · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can't wait for the force-feedback version.

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  12. "The Game" by SWroclawski · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've seen Star Trek Next Generation- I know what happens now... we all have oh so much fun with the game, as it starts to control our minds and we become enslaved.

    Luckily Wil Wheaton read Slashdot and hopefully will remember the blinking light sequence that saves us all.

    1. Re:"The Game" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      There are four blinky lights!

  13. Oh no by millahtime · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see it now...... I am eating ice cream cause my hands are free and i blow the game cause of brain freeze.

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  14. Oh great by unassimilatible · · Score: 2, Funny
    Instead of my ass growing huge from sitting and playing video games, now my body will atrophy and my head will grow like one of those Talosians.

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  15. typing reply with my brain... by mr_resident · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is cool, but [needsex] not news. I [william shatner's birthday today - how many more?] saw a [excellent cleavage] report on this several years ago. When [is lunch?] do they expect [what kind of underwear is she wearing?] to have a working prototype for [I need a hug] a really cool game [is there coffee?] like Doom3? [needsex]

  16. Re:This is not, in itself, new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Kevin Warwick [bearload.com]

    Looks bizarre. Could almost be a worthy successor to the goatse man.

  17. It's a typo! by spungo · · Score: 0, Funny

    The article meant to say that Brian was controlling a video game - and so was his wife!

  18. finally! by yulek · · Score: 3, Funny

    we finally return to a time where you have to use your brain to play a computer game...

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  19. Re:The new pong by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 4, Funny

    pong was lame?

  20. Save your money. by Cruciform · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's a much cheaper solution.

    1) Rent a copy of your favorite game.

    2) Invite your most passive friend over for the day.

    3) Set him up in front of the console.

    4) Now spent the whole afternoon telling him how to play, what he's doing wrong, and generally hurling abuse at him. "Left you fuck! Turn left! Oh look, now you're DEAD!"

    Eventually you'll either have complete control over his actions or he'll crack and shove the controller up your ass.

    Just pray it's not the original XBox controller.