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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.
It keeps changing to porn every seven seconds.