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BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App

Posted by samzenpus on from the use-your-head dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC has teamed up with tech company This Place to develop a prototype television headset that can be operated with the power of brainwaves. The Mind Control TV prototype works with an experimental version of the BBC's iPlayer on-demand platform. "It's an internal prototype designed to give our programme makers, technologists and other users an idea of how this technology might be used in future. It was much easier for some than it was for others, but they all managed to get it to work." said Cyrus Saihan, head of business development for the BBC's Digital division.

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  1. I've developed a Slashdot mind control device by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's nothing. I've made a boobs mind-control device that boobs lets me write Slashdot posts without having to physical type titties like a chump.

    There are still a couple of boooobies bugs, but nothing a couple of big investments couldn't fix flange.

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
  2. Abiguously worded title by Coisiche · · Score: 2

    Most TV already is about "mind control".

  3. Subject/Object? by Trevelyan · · Score: 2

    Mind-Control TV or Mind-Controlled TV ?

    There is a significant difference, and the first pretty much already exists.

  4. I checked the date... by ccanucs · · Score: 2

    I checked the date. Nope. Not Apr 1st. Also - not a new Dr. Who episode.... Must be real! :-D