Arduino Assisted Mind-Controlled Television

andylim writes "Dcept905, aka Paul, has interfaced an EEG headset and an Arduino with an IR LED to control his television set with thought alone. 'I have finally gotten around to re-writing some of my old code and re-recording a proper demo of controlling physical objects using thoughts by interfacing an EEG headset with an Arduino. While this technology is interesting and exciting, before anyone sees this as an endorsement for this particular EEG headset, I strongly recommend reading my full review of the device.'"

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The (d)evolution of humanity?

[CRCulver]

In one of his short stories collected in Tales of Known Space , Larry Niven introduced an alien species that had developed the power to attract prey towards it telepathically. Consequently, these aliens no longer had a need to move around to sustain itself, and evolved into a sessile species that just sat there like a rock. At a time when health experts complain that young people are becoming too sedentary, is the potential of mind-controlled technology really that good a thing?

Get them involved in open source

[Anonymous Coward]

This is an amazing story - but it is so rife with issues and lock-downs. vis: "I believe that this technology can be amazing when used in accessibility applications. Wheelchairs, robotic arms, and an array of any product you can imagine controlled by thought are the direction I had hoped to go in, but having to physically strap a laptop and monetarily strap the hardware and license costs on is disgustingly restrictive." It's now time to get Emotive to listen to the fact that they are on the verge of transforming the world. Not giving the open source community the ability to interface with their product is going to result in one of two things:

a) A Chinese knock-off

b) Reverse engineering

Here's what we need to do: email the principals: Professor Allan Snyder, Neil Weste and ask them to please re-consider making their product more open. This would get all sorts of hackers involved and result in significantly increased sales. I really do not understand Emotive's marketing strategy. If you want to own a market, a mix of closed and open source software is the route to go: the Google phone is a great example: mostly open source software with the phone communications stack closed source (for obvious reasons).