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OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping
An anonymous reader writes "Technology review site Overclock3D has received word that OCZ Technology is putting their neural impulse actuator (NIA) into mass production for shipping next week. The device, aimed at gamers, works by reading biopotentials. 'These include activities of the brain, the autonomous nervous system and muscles — all of which are captured using embrace sensors located on the NIA's headband, amplified and sent to the PC via USB 2.0.' Users of the NIA will be able to control their in-game movements using only the power of mind. The device is priced at around $600USD"
Hey, it's you who is failing the imagination test.
"Mobile computing" is currently about doing the stuff you do on a desktop computer while you are not sitting at a desk. This even includes "making calls", even if you more often than not use your land line instead of something like Skype when you are at your desk.
In the future (the magical super future) the computers that are sewn into your clothes will not be helping you check your email.. they are will be helping you do all those things that just don't make any sense if you're not on the move:
* Helping you avoid traffic jams
* Telling you when the next bus/train/rocket is leaving on your regular route so you know to walk faster
* Posting your position to Facebook - or whatever takes its place
* Keeping track of where your friends are - cause kids in the future will care more about being able to find their friends than who can see where they are.
* Enabling you to search the local environment for businesses, single women, whatever.
* Interacting with all the new network enabled devices that haven't been invented yet.. and don't be surprised if you can't even get a coke from a vending machine if you don't have sufficient network presence.
and so on and so on.
How we know is more important than what we know.