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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.'"
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?
... that we can now control the TV with our minds after decades of it going the other way.
It is by will alone I set my TV in motion.
... for paraplegics, but I think I'll stick with my current thought-controlled interface: hands.
When I saw that scene in the X-Men where the kid changes the channels by blinking, I decided I wanted to have that power. Now if they'd only devise a way I could get a beer using only my mind (I've tried The Force, but it doesn't seem to be working for me).
It keeps changing to porn every seven seconds.
There goes my last 30 calories of exercise a day...
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).
Shouldn't that be a brain-controlled device?
Arduino assisted mind-controlling television
and thought "Oh crap. We're there already?"
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You have no mind left.
Have gnu, will travel.
In Soviet Russia television controls your mind.
Have you had your soma pill today?
...when you fall asleep with your TV control headset on and have another dream of your high school guidance councilor's disconcerting habit of wearing short dresses and no underwear...
Although that presumes that everybody had someone like my guidance counselor; if somebody out there dreams of Mr. Garrison, I don't want to know.
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
Am I the only one seeing that the Arduino platform is just a set of dev-boards with Atmel AVR chips on them?
Agreed, it's a nice jumpstart when you need to cobble together a test, but it isn't supposed to be the final step.
The article should headline "Atmel AVR Assisted Mind-Controlled Television". Then credit Arduino in the text.
Still useful to have good muscles in space, to overcome unexpected conditions.
Of course, we may have smarter/better robot workers by then as well..