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Enter The Matrix

Quoted:

At least two start-ups have developed technology that monitors a player's brain waves and uses the signals to control the action in games. They hope it will enable game creators to immerse players in imaginary worlds that they can control with their thoughts instead of their hands.

San Jose's NeuroSky has been testing prototypes of its system that uses a sensor-laden headband to monitor brain waves, and then uses the signals to control the interaction in video games. They hope that such games are just the beginning of a mind-machine interface with many different applications.

``Research on brain waves is well known,'' said NeuroSky Chief Executive Stanley Yang. ``But we have worked on a way for detecting them with a low-cost technology and then interpreting what they mean. We think this will have broad applications.''

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Deanna Barr (mail):
Feel the force, Luke...
4.27.2006 2:58pm
TallDave (mail) (www):
I doubt this will evolve beyond a curiosity unless/until someone comes up with a vastly more efficient way to read nervous impulses without breaking the skin. Currently, it just doesn't work that well.
4.27.2006 2:58pm
Phelps (www):
Breaking the skin hell. I would go under for an implanted DNI as soon as it is legal, affordable and reasonably safe. (And my definition of reasonable is probably pretty liberal on that point.) If I could get a real DNI for the price of LASIK, I would jump on it.
4.27.2006 6:43pm
BK (mail):
Video Games, Hell!

Hook that sucker up to a fighter jet or attack helicopter.

Talk about "be one with the..."
4.28.2006 12:58pm