Political commentary aside, this is pretty damn cool. I'm particularly impressed that the person could multitask with it---that he learned to control his TV while doing other things.
Sounds cool, but wouldn't such "instrumental telepathy" require rather high measure of mental discipline and concentration? To some extent these are trainable, true, but thoughts (or what passes for thoughts) are frequently scattering and wandering off.
It IS kind of cool. One thing puzzles me though. They said he could do it even "while talking." If he can talk why doesn't he use voice-activated technology? I think that's available now.
"that he learned to control his TV while doing other things."
Cool, then I wouldn't have to try and find the clicker as I write this...