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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."
It's funny how in all of these futuristic shows we show people playing games and controlling cars with our minds. Now it's becoming a reality on a much quicker timescale than we imagined.
It's just like how the book 2001 predicted we'd have space travel, and land on the moon, then we did, way before 2001. It's nice when technology moves faster than fiction.
I are winner
This tech is tailor made for the porn industry. Guaranteed profit, no ??? necessary.
Moo.
Actually, brain activity would likely be at a peak during a dream stage. Hypnosis would be much better, where you can be told to basically "think of nothing" and come as close as possible.
$19k for a simplistic, albeit technically interesting, game seems rather steep. Now if it made Tyra Banks come rolling to me...
That table looks like something from a pizza parlor circa 1985.
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Lot of other stuff on this:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58193,00
and this one which is funny..
Cheers
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
... it has really odd side effects. Its almost like psychokenesis.
Thinking about it gets me angry, and everytime I get angry, slashdot gets 503 errors... Sorry about those, folks.
Seriously, though... isn't there such a thing as 'rolling back production code,' and 'unit tests,' and 'testing out code on a test server before pushing to production'?
Those of us that work in coding shops use these profusely... would be more professional to see something like this in action at slashdot.
If you agree, please mod up.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
This is also used to aid people who are completely paralysed to communicate through a PC.
It uses a P6 response which is exercised through pre-emptive expectant brain activity. If you hook up a ECG, and filter the waveforms, at certain points a frequency jumps, at the point where you expect a red traffic light to go green.
Signal processing of ECG signals allows you to isolate certain conditions of thought, and therefore, thought allows you to control whatever is triggered by the filters.
Neat! I can save myself RSI in 5 years, but fry my brain trying to think-type and solve programming problems.
Perhaps they will use this to install seti in everyones brain!!
Tod.
PS: Seti is evil.
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
I havn't bought it, because I'm a poor college student, but this idea has already been fully experimented with in Wild Divine.
Learn something new.
You would probably keep losing.
I'm guessing that the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.
Wow, this is fantastic stuff. Why are people complaining this is 'too simple'? What do you want, Honda ads featuring steering wheel-less cars?
This is an absolute (apologies to Scott Bakula) Quantum Leap over anything I've ever seen before. I'm no scientist so I haven't seen the prior research, but this is amazing stuff. I think if the news media gets a hold of this one the interest would skyrocket.
Whether this is proof of concept or not, the reality is that nothing has ever been created that is anywhere like this in the commerical market. Even for the super-rich, this is the toy to have. I could've swore this was $199.00 (by quickly misreading the price) and was pulling at my wallet when I realized my mistake.
Where is the wonder? Where is the spectacle? Are we really so jaded to everything that when something unabashadly ingenius arrives, even in the most simplistic of forms, we can't simply enjoy it?
I believe this is the beginning of an era, one that will only hasten its way here if this gets the attention it deserves. What geek wouldn't love to face-off with an archrival or friend?
Battle of wits? Meeting of the minds? This is fantastic.
Only if the game lasted a few hours. You don't start to dream right when you fall asleep; it's something like increments of 90 minutes after you fall asleep. For instance, fall asleep at 12:00 and you'd dream at 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, etc.
No sig for you.
I bet there is a maximum that the sensors can pick up. That said, do you do better if the sensor is not well attached to your head?
What's much more interesting, IMHO, is the circular printer on the home page (it's about halfway down).
So who is going to be the first to make a homebrew mindball system using an OpenEEG interface?
You could probably build the entire thing for less than $1000 in parts.
Yup, the brainfingers system works quite well. I have two of them here at the university and they're pretty impressive. Recognizes features generated by different muscle movements in the face.
They also have some quite complex software to map incoming features to computer functions (controlling the mouse, keyboard, etc).
I'm doing a bit of work on their feature detection to detect long features more accurately.