Brain Controlled Tightrope Video Game Shown

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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Re:This is not, in itself, new

[strictnein]

Troll... don't click link..
blah blah blah

not the only one...

[Polo]

There's already a game out there that does this.

the journey to wild divine

It uses biofeedback to control the game, which is a little different than the technique used in this game.

This is similar to the Mind Drive 10 Years ago.

[eBayDoug]

A friend of mine thought he was gonna get rich when he was the manufacturer's rep for a product called The Mind Drive. You could use your thoughts to "think right or left" and these thoughts would register in your finget and be transmitted to the screen as you slalom down a ski slope. It was actually pretty cool Here is a CNET article from 1995. The Mind Drive

Re:Remember

[surprise_audit]

No, probably he said that because of this book:

Firefox

and, of course, the movie starring Clint Eastwood:

Firefox DVD

which are about a Russian warplane codenamed Firefox that has a thought-controlled weapons system.

You can build your own EEG kit

[Slinky Saves the Wor]

The OpenEEG people aim to create an affordable EEG kit. There's already some schematics for home tinkerers.

Now I feel bad because I didn't pay attention to learning electronics when I was younger...

More BCI information

[Rathumos]

Some further links for more information on Brain-Computer Interfaces:

Upcoming talk and demonstration on the development of Brain-Computer Interfaces: http://www.notacon.org/speakers.html#lowne (shameless plug)

Invasive, motor-cortical BCI development at Utah: http://www.bioen.utah.edu/cni/Projects/Motor.htm

Mike Gibbs' work with BCIs at Oxford University's Robotics Group: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mgibbs/research.html

The Neural Prostheses program at the National Institutes of Health includes calls for proposals in BCI development: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/npp/

The University of British Columbia's BCI research group: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~garyb/BCI.htm

Results of the 2003 Brain Computer interface competition (focuses on signal processing techniques): http://ida.first.fraunhofer.de/projects/bci/compet ition/results/index.html

BCI development at the Cognitive Science and Technology group at the Helsinki University of Technology: http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/bci/

Dr. Jessica Bayliss's BCI work and extensive bibliography (very important, seminal work on BCI development): http://www.cs.rit.edu/~jdb/research/ and http://www.cs.rit.edu/~jdb/research/baylissThesis. pdf

Dr. Charles Anderson's work at Colorado State University with EEG pattern classification in BCI systems: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/eeg/index.html

Manchester University's Toby Howard has written some good articles on BCIs, mostly for Popular Science: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/research/bc i/

Dr. Michael Black at Brown University teaches a course in BCI development: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs295-7/home.html

Cyberkinetics, Inc. makes medical-use BCIs: http://www.cyberkineticsinc.com/

Re:something similar years ago?

[blastedtokyo]

It was called MindDrive from a company called Other 90% Technologies. It was released about 10 years ago but apparently you can still buy it from the company in Italy for about $300.

Re: Predicted in 1917

[johnrpenner]

this was predicted in 1917:

Man will, in time, manage to implant the death-forces in man,
related to electrical and magnetic forces, with external machines.
He will then be able to direct his intentions, his thoughts into the machine.

(Rudolf Steiner, Individuelle Geistwesen und einheitlicher
Weltengrund, November 25, 1917, Dornach Switzerland)

Re:Remember

[vec sibarra]

Or alternatively from Neon Genesis Evangelion, where Asuka tells Shinji that he must "think in German" to control the Evangelion.