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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. Google cache by marderj · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here

  2. I for one by dominyx · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our tightrope walking monster overlords.

  3. Here come the BLUE PILL!!! by Progman3K · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And after hundreds of years, someone will come along and offer humans the RED pill, to leave the Matrix...

    Just goes to show, people are never happy.

    --
    I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
  4. Re:something similar years ago? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This was a commercial product called "MindDrive". It was actually left/right sensitive by virtue of em sensing and not pulse-reading or pressure-sensing. As I remember, you had to "train" your brain to trigger the events - it was a pretty far cry from "just willing it"... the term for this kind of trigger is a "brainfinger".

    AFAIC, pretty useless except for practical jokes. "Watch me turn off the neighbors' porchlights... with my MIND ALONE!"

    Ditto this "new" technology -- really, they've been doing it for a long time now. Though maybe not without an MRI machine...