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Brain Control Headset for Gamers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-out-of-my-brain dept.

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.

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  1. Yea! Finally Brain Control for Gamera by inicom · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    -a.e.mossberg
  2. And you thought CTS was bad by bentcd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another new word of the 21st century:

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

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    sigs are hazardous to your health
  3. Incredible by Mickyfin613 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Bad summary. by hal2814 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Re:maybe I miss read. by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

    But even more importantly - will it blend?

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    which is totally what she said
  6. Re:Is anyone slightly worried about some of this? by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

    *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!!

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    which is totally what she said
  7. I'm surprised by Phoenix666 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
  8. Re:just what every MMORPGer needs. by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

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