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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. Re:Remember by surprise_audit · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.
  2. You can build your own EEG kit by Slinky+Saves+the+Wor · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...

    --
    I do not moderate.
  3. More BCI information by Rathumos · · Score: 4, Informative
    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/

  4. Re: Predicted in 1917 by johnrpenner · · Score: 4, Informative


    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)