Posted on 02/22/2008 1:32:27 AM PST by Froufrou
Hands cramping up from too many video games?
How about controlling games with your thoughts instead? Later this year, Emotiv Systems Inc. plans to start selling the $299 EPOC neuroheadset to let you do just that.
The headset's sensors are designed to detect conscious thoughts and expressions as well as "non-conscious emotions" by reading electrical signals around the brain, says the company, which demonstrated the wireless gadget at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
The company, which unveiled a prototype last year, says the headset can detect emotions such as anger, excitement and tension, as well as facial expressions and cognitive actions like pushing and pulling objects.
The headset will be sold with a game developed by Emotiv, but it can also be made to work with existing PC games, the company said. Users will also be able to access an online portal to play more games, chat or upload their own content such as music or photos.
Emotiv plans to work with IBM Corp. to explore applications beyond video gaming. The "brain computer interface" technology could transform not only gaming, but how humans and computers interact, said Paul Ledak, vice president of IBM's Digital Convergence business.
Pingaroonie...
Stew on this ping.
I like it.
Unlike most men.
~snorrfle!~ It’s like the ‘pull my finger’ joke, only this time it really is a brain-fart...
ROTFLMAO! Something special for you, via pm...
Gosh, TINFOIL hats are real, after all! So much for all the sky is falling Freepers. Put one on all the candidates so we can tell if they are really humans or aliens. Pass me another brew.
That’s why God invented tandem two seaters.
WTF? How did you know I have a Miller Lite on my right???
What’s the red thingy in back? Is that a wallet or a battery pack???
I do not think I want to know, or have projected, my teenagers thoughts. Eat, play and sleep, reminds me of when he was an infant. :)
pINg!
Good point. As a teen I didn’t think about much other than myself.
Military (how about integrated into a helmet and controls radios or even further out there, allows soldiers to wear heavy armor with hydraulics controlled by this thing?
How about for amputees, to control new types of postheses? Especially if they can make it smaller somehow.
When does the wife control model come out?
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