Mind Control for the Masses
Now this is some fascinating breakthrough in technology! A Silicon Valley company called NeuroSky recently unveiled a device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The device, which looks like a pair of headphones, can interpret brainwaves and translate them into commands for a computer. Using the robust physics world of the Source Engine (Half Life 2, etc), a user is able to lift, drop and move objects simply by thinking about it.
As awesome as it will be to play video games using though control, the applications of this technology reach far beyond the virtual world. Other applications demonstrated include moving a small remote-control cart, again using nothing more than thought to control forward, backwards, and left/right motion. This would be a major breakthrough for disabled people like paraplegics. The applications are limitless - surgeons and the medical field, military applications, and even astronauts working in space.
Best of all? The technology is cheap and ready to mass-produce for consumer use. NeuroSky says that the device would only add approximately $15 US to the price of a video game. It will be exciting to see what kind of home-brew applications will be developed using this device, much as we saw with the “WiiMote” that came bundled with the Wii.
This shit is crazy awesome.