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Teen Plays Videogame With Brain Signals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-that-is-next-gen dept.

SkyFire360 writes "A team of ECoG (ElectroCorticography) researchers from Washington University in St. Louis successfully wired a young man's brain up to a computer and began reading the neurological firings in his brain. After analyzing the action potentials created when a neuron fires, they were able to get two-dimensional control of a cursor. Taking the research one step further, they decided to connect an old Atari 2600 to the signal processing computer to see if the young man could control the videogame system."

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  1. In Tomorrow's News... by Daemonstar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sadly, 15 seconds after being hooked up to an "undisclosed operating system", little Timmy caught a virus and had to be rebooted.

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  2. I bet that made you all happy by WisC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I must commend these guys for their research, from now on all the misfits and unacceptables that populate slashdot can be stored away in a big warehouse, wired up to old hardware where they will popoluate a virtual world, oh the joy you will never have to see that nasty sunlight again.