New games powered by brain waves

January 10, 2009 Mindflex game

Tim Sheridan, wearing a headset containing sensors for the forehead and earlobes to measure brainwave activity, uses his mind to raise a small purple foam ball as he demonstrates the Mindflex game at the Mattel display at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 8, 2009.

An elderly Chinese woman wearing a headset concentrates intensely on a small foam ball and it begins to rise slowly into the air.



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  • aphemix - Jan 10, 2009
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    the world's getting pretty crazy.....
  • LuckyBrandon - Jan 10, 2009
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    ok wait, so toymakers are putting this on their toys now, yet I still cant think things to my PC and have them happen (commercially). WTF!!
  • gwargh - Jan 10, 2009
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    ok wait, so toymakers are putting this on their toys now, yet I still cant think things to my PC and have them happen (commercially). WTF!!

    Yes, toy makers are using it for a system that has two states (concentrating and not concentrating). If you want little games that do the same (or perhaps you want to try coding bit by bit, byte by byte), I'm sure someone can make them available commercially, but this technology has not gone nearly far enough to do much more advanced tasks. Yet.
  • Noumenon - Jan 10, 2009
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    This technology is financed by the aspirin companys.
  • MikeB - Jan 11, 2009
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    OK... I have read this a few times now... Is Tim Sheridan an old Chinese woman?
    She doesn't look Chinese and she has a beard. Besides Tim Sheridan doesn't sound like a Chinese woman's name.
    I am so confused...
  • NeilFarbstein - Jan 11, 2009
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    you can get it up with will power!
  • nThanksForAllTheFish - Jan 13, 2009
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    OK... I have read this a few times now... Is Tim Sheridan an old Chinese woman?
    She doesn't look Chinese and she has a beard. Besides Tim Sheridan doesn't sound like a Chinese woman's name.
    I am so confused...


    If you read PhysOrg articles, you'll notice they use a bold font at the beginning of their articles - I suppose as an Intro/Attention Grabber. It is not the caption to any photo.
  • porty - Jan 15, 2009
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    thanks for every thing

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