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Brain Wave Videogame Championship

Posted by Zonk on from the he-can-hear-your-smack-talk-with-his-brains dept.

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.

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  1. Re:"Theta waves"... by EvilIdler · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those are 'theta waves', not 'thetans that wave at you', silly!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_wave

    The five types are alpha, beta, gamma, delta and theta.

    Gamma being the one not exactly recognised by most scientists, as it supposedly is the
    40Hz+ range where precognition and other weirdness happens ;)

    The four commonly accepted ranges are delta at the very low 1-4Hz range - practically
    comatose deep sleep, theta at 4-8Hz (or 7, according to some sources) - meditative states,
    alpha at 6-12Hz - regular relaxed states, and beta at 12Hz+ being alertness and concentration.