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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. Uh oh... by BMonger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you make a Beowulf cluster of... teens?

    1. Re:Uh oh... by kfg · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can you make a Beowulf cluster of... teens?

      Just go to a mall and observe.

      KFG

    2. Re:Uh oh... by Kuj0317 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unfortunately, the networking overhead causes the computation power of the group to be significantly less than that of any given individual.



      I am old. And bitter.


  2. Im posting... by cmburns69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm posting this with my mind. I hope I dont get modded down. Oh crap, I can't silence my inner monologue! Oh crap! crap! crap... *carrier lost*

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  3. Dang. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That means the Nintendo Wii is out-of-date already. *sigh*

  4. Re:Did they figure it out, or did he? by Doctor+Memory · · Score: 5, Funny
    What I worry about is the long term effects of purposely sending "interrupt" signals to your body parts. Has this ever been studied before?
    Google for "blue balls"...
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  5. Re:Sadly by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny
    After succumbing to severe brain damage, his body would be dumped in the New Mexico desert, flattened by a steamroller, and covered in concrete.
    Actually, he'd continuously try to get up out of the pit, but he'd keep falling back in immediately upon reaching the top.
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