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Let the Mindgames Begin
chienr writes "Like Pong, but instead of paddles, you use your brainwaves to control the ball over to the opponent's goal, that's Mindball! This apparatus was previously an experiment under the name Brainball, and is now commercially available - here's another link with video."
At last, a computer game for women.
doping scandals.
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It seems to me, that the best way to win would be to just close your eyes and ignore the ball. Better yet, take a nap.
Atari was going to put out a similar device for their 2600 way back when.
Yeah sounds exciting to watch people sit there while a ball moves. I'd rather see it move for whoever can be the most intense that would be great.
So, in order to play you have to almost *not care* if you win or lose...
:)
This may have uses in anger management courses, but I can't see it popping up in bars and arcades any time soon.
They had something like this on TNG's episode "The Game", where Wesley and Ensign Robin Lefler are the only ones on board that have not been taken over by a game you control with your mind. I am sure if Wil Wheaton is reading this he will have an Ashley Judd comment ;-)
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
I thought the real mindgames were all the 503's Slashdot has been throwing as part of a guerilla marketing campaign for the Manchurian Candidate or something.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Wake me up when they are playing with a bottle of Janx Spirit.
"Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit").
... I don't have the minimum system requirements...
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
"For those who are just too competitive to relax by playing - Mindball is a game where two players control a ball with their brainwaves and the one who's the most relaxed wins... The biosensor system registers the electrical activity and the player who is the most relaxed can make the ball roll over to his opponent's goal with his brainwaves."
Let's see, a player needs to be completely relaxed in order to win. Does that mean that people who are stoned/drunk/asleep offer the best competition?? That's a scary thought...
They don't have a brain, you insensitive clod!
"Be the ball, be the ball....."
Seems like the ideal stoner party game.
Duuuude, I am soooo much more relaxed than you.
Talkin smack bitch? Watch my total relaxation crush your total relaxation.
Whoooooaaaaaa
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
you kids with your cheap jedi references. pah.
...I wear my tin-foil hat?
WTF is an Ashley Judd comment?
A Linux user kissed Ashley Judd. Yes, it's true (Wil Wheaton uses Mandrake). BEAT THAT YOU SMUG BSD SNOBS!
"The biosensor system, registers the electrical activity in the brain - so called EGG."
Cripes, I've been doing it wrong all these years. I thought it was electroencephalogram (EEG). Now I find out that the brain runs on chicken embryos.
Makes sense though. Most people I know are either hard boiled, fried, or totally scrambled. I wonder if I can get a refund on my student loans and apply for chef's school instead.
The anti-drug TV ad was right: "THIS IS YOUR BRAIN....."
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
It always starts with pong and ends with getting bombarded by enough spam to drive a person nuts, cept this time it's getting beamed directly into your head.
This message was brought to you by the death of 30 brain cells.
ummmm. wait, that didn't come out right
I hope it's not an EGG! An esophagogastroduodenoscopy consists of inserting a small camera down the throat to check out the esophagus, stomach, and upper duodenum. Of course, having it be an EGG would make relaxing a lot harder, and thus make the game a lot more challenging. :)
Is it happy? Can we taunt it?
Dyolf Knip
Psychic athletes have been caught doping, literally with marijuana to attempt to cheat at the game "Mindball" by chemically altering themselves to feel more relaxed. Coincidentally, the accused athletes have all been unreachable for comment due to "overseas vacations".
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
IBM will create a computer and name it "Deep Null", then it will match it against the current Mindball world champion, the dalai lama.