Brain Control Headset for Gamers

gbjbaanb writes "Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone. Headsets which read neural activity are not new, but Ms Le [president of US/Australian firm Emotiv] said the Epoc was the first consumer device that can be used for gaming. 'This is the first headset that doesn't require a large net of electrodes, or a technician to calibrate or operate it and does require gel on the scalp,' she said. 'It also doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars.'" Wait until the government can get warrantless wiretaps on the logs of those things.

Comments

Yea! Finally Brain Control for Gamera

[inicom]

I'm personally glad to read this, as Gamera has been far too much of a free spirit wrecking havoc with his fire breath. This new era of brain control for Gamera should focus his energies far better to protect the cities of Japan.

And you thought CTS was bad

[bentcd]

Another new word of the 21st century:

brain sprain
Usage: "I sprained my brain playing HalfLife all through the weekend".

just what every MMORPGer needs.

[will_die]

Now when you die alone in your studio apartment the decomposing of your brain will be interpreted as commands, further delaying the chance that someone will alert the police that something is wrong.

Re:just what every MMORPGer needs.

[Anonymous Coward]

Depending on your guild mates to call the cops is probably a stretch. They'd probably just loot your corpse. You're better off hoping that your girlfriend, boss or friends notice that you're missing... Nevermind.

Re:just what every MMORPGer needs.

[Anonymous Coward]

"There is a big difference between all dead and mostly dead"

Re:just what every MMORPGer needs.

[ichigo 2.0]

Yeah, except a decomposing brain usually means that the owner of said brain is 100% dead. Or watching American Idol.

Re:Mindstorms

[tristian_was_here]

I cant wait till some one mods it for the GTA San Andreas "hot coffee mod"

And now you've gotten the song stuck in my head.

[Rob T Firefly]

Gamera, Gamera!
Gamera is really neat!
He is filled with turtle meat!
We all love you Gamera!

Incredible

[Mickyfin613]

Soon all effort will be removed from gaming what-so-ever. Think of all the precious calories we can save playing World of Warcraft with our minds! Wonder if the twitch reaction timing will mean I can finally beat a Warlock 1v1.

Re:Bad summary.

[hal2814]

That's exactly what it is. I found a picture of it online if anyone is interested.

Re:Is this really nessary.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wiretapping a device of this sort would result in a log that looks something like this:

"Left! Left! Right! Up! DAMNIT SHOOT HIM! AIM UP STUPID! DAMNIT! WHY DO YOU SUCK SO MUCH? OMG!"

Re:maybe I miss read.

[WC as Kato]

Yep, that's an awkward sentence. Does it require gel or not?! And how does it taste?

I read it wrong

[slaker]

Did anyone else mis-read that headline as "Birth Control for gamers" or is it just me?

Re:maybe I miss read.

[somersault]

But even more importantly - will it blend?

HAL would say ...

[Kvasio]

Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.

Re:Is anyone slightly worried about some of this?

[somersault]

*somewhere deep underground in an abandoned missile silo*

Evil Data Mining Henchman: Look, master! This one smiles for 62% of the time while playing Half-Life 2! And they only have 512MB of RAM!

Evil Data Mining Master: MWAAAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAA!! Excellent work, Patrick! Soon we shall know just how much all of those poor fools are smiling! My intricately pointless and entirely impotent plan for world domination is almost complete!!

I'm surprised

[Phoenix666]

No one brought up the inevitable hack to enable "no-hands" surfing for pr0n.

Re:I wonder. If ANYthing, Slashdot could do well

[davidsyes]

Hacking Hawking. Or, Hawking Hawking... and grafting him onto Slashdot... Might improve the moderation system, or...