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Brain Wave Videogame Championship
holy_calamity writes "The Science Museum in London is hosting a Mindball Championship next week. Pairs of opponents wired up to electroencephalogram (EEG) machines use their brain waves to push a ball towards an opponent. The challenge is that to win, the players have to relax — the ball only responds to theta waves (4-8 Hz) associated with drowsiness or alpha waves (8-12 Hz) associated with being relaxed. " The winner gets the title of Britain's Most Relaxed Mind. So ... good luck, lazy people.
but going over there is too much effort.
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I wonder if you smoke some pot before the competition, you'll get kicked out for "doping".
Sorry, that was bad.
I heard of a pretty cool open source product called Firefox. Someone wrote a flight simulator plugin for it, and it's pretty good, but you have to think in Russian.
I'd love to see this competition broadcast, complete with color commentary.
"Folks, I've seen a lot of things, but the intensity at our competition here today is intangible. The absence of pressure is really heating up! I can tell that our contestants are both going to give it their none, their best zero percent. Our favorite to win today is Dan. I interviewed him before the match, let's take a look at it now."
(Dan) "Well, Jim, it's taken a lot of not working hard to get to this level. I think that if I had to credit one thing with my success, it's my unwillingness to do everything it takes to win. I've also been totally uncommitted to the game since I was a kid. I guess I've just always had that lack of focus that it takes to get to this level."