Playing Games With One's Brainwaves

PolloDiablo writes "Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have reported success with recording the signals a brain sends out to the other parts of the body and using them to play a game. The subjects had to move a cursor towards a target in a one-dimensional environment without using any bodypart, just pure brainpower. One subject had a success rate of 100%. This could prove a breakthrough in the use of prosthetics. The next step is repeating the same test in a 2-dimensional environment. Similar tests have been done with monkeys before but never with humans."

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First time on humans?

[SmallFurryCreature]

Oh come on this technology has been around for years now. I seen countless "tech" programs visiting research centers and the presenter being trained to do something just by thinking. Move a cursor, click an onscreen button. Even play some extremely primitive games. the methods varied greatly, from simple diodes placed on the head to putting it into one of giant body scanners to implants.

I know americans think the rest of the world means alaska but this is nothing new. We are all just waiting for someone to turn it into a working product.