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broKenfoLd writes "In an earlier post, we looked at the future of Matrix-esque control over computers. In that article, monkeys got to play the games. Today at UW in Madison, WI, it's the humans who are playing video games just by thinking about it. While this is cool for us power gamers, it has many more impressive applications, including limb replacement."
When this is refined it can change the way games are played in general. No longer will games be about who has the best hand-eye coordination. Rather they will be about who can think the smartest and fastest. We may end up calling any form of gaming that requires movement or manipulation of physical controls old-school.
Scary if YOU design it, that is!
Sheesh, I bet you're the guy who built those desktops without power buttons for a few years, relying on windows new ability to shut down the machine automatically instead. Will mankind never learn?
The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'
Come on, you can grab some chick's bare breast with your mechanic arm and blame your firmware. Can you imagine punching the police officer who pulled you over for speeding, and say it has a mind of it's own. Sky's the limit!!!
Screw limb replacement. I want limb addition!
A Multiplayer Strategy Game for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux
Brain surgery to play video games better?
/Billy hurls himself down stairs
"Please Mom!"
"No Billy. That system is designed for paralyzed people not so you can play video games better"
Checkmate
those desktops without power buttons
Are you talking about current Macs? *evil grin*
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she won't let you fly, but she might let you sing
Combine the unsurpassed parallel processing capability of our brain with speed of sequential execution of an even average home pc, and who knows what can happen. This is what you read about in sci-fi, yet it's already on our door steps. (Mind you it's in infant stage, but nonetheless.) Next thing you know faculties of Math/Science/etc. will cease to exist and instead the parents will pick if they want the latest copy of Mathematica or Maple installed in their childs brain ;)
Spoken like someone who's never grabbed a breast.
What's the point if you're using a mechanical hand?
Send lawyers, guns, and money!