OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store

John Roller writes "Three months to the day since Slashdot originally received word that OCZ's "brain-mouse" — the Neural Impulse Actuator was ready for shipping, the first in-depth review of the device containing pictures of the retail packaging along with several videos have arrived on the internet. Overclock3D.Net got the first look at the device, and although it's still early days, they managed to play a game of "Pong" using only brain power. The article is only part one in a month-long log of using the device, but it's extremely interesting to see what the people who have pre-ordered the device can expect from it when it arrives on their doorsteps shortly."

Comments

Great for non-gaming also

[conlaw]

Yes, this may help someone to do better in WOW or GTA IV but I'm thinking of some brilliant people whose bodies are hampered by cerebral palsy. Their main -- or sometimes only -- method of communication is through a computer which they may have trouble using because one or both of their hands is not fully functional. One of these units could make a major difference in their lives.

Here endeth the sermonizing.

Neat, but...

[blindd0t]

This looks really neat, really promising, and is very exciting to see. It does make me think of a few questions though...

• It's not uncommon to use voice-chat while gaming. How is this device affected by those muscle movements and brain activity?
• I often eat and drink while at the PC (i.e. I was on lunch break while reading the article). How do those muscle movements affect the device?
• Given the two points above, is there any quick and easy means of temporarily disabling the device or ignoring the input from it? For example, a hot-key would work, or some head-phones have mute buttons built onto them. Of course, I don't expect it to be perfect, but something like that could help deal with its imperfections.
• What's the price of this thing?!
• How long from now until Hawking can kick our asses in a FPS? =P

Stephen Hawking

[yorkrj]

I wonder if this would do any good for Stephen Hawking and others afflicted with ALS?

I want this with a programmable interface

[infolib]

This thing is probably Very Nice (if it wasn't slashdotted) but I'd want to pass the raw output to my own data analysis algorithms. Why should it just be a gaming device? I guess it can double as a sleep rythm detector, or maybe I can tune it to work with me, instead of the other way around.