Comments on: The next game controller--your brain?

New game platform apparently can respond to emotions and conscious thoughts to move objects on the screen.
Photos: This helmet plays mind games

[monumentsinstone]

ESP no too far off.

If this controller actualy works, eESP (electronic Extra Sensory Perception) should not be to far off. This could potentially prove to be an almost fool proof lie detector test. Cool concept, the future uses are a little scary though. My personal fantasy for this kind of device would be to transcribe music that you think in you head. Guitar hero of the not so distant future.

jq,
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[mRfung]

no doubt music

i often find myself with too many intruments all at once in my head to get it down properly, it'd be great to sit and lay down tracks with two or more people hooked up to it simultaniously. mind reading pro tools. heh.

[phenylamine]

mind control applications

this is what they let us see.the government is well ahead of this no doubt.mind control anyone?

[Rohan.Black]

google better jump on this quick

you know what you want, but you can't always find the words for it...better searching if this device can pick up on the desired results. I wonder if it can pick up on abstract thoughts or literal language thoughts, ya know thinking words and it typing it out...it'd be quiet in the office with nobody typing. i wonder if it would understand different languages too, would it have to be programmed to understand french vs english for instance or just know. cool stuff....i wonder what would happen during a thunderstorm though :P

[quarky42]

perhaps not quite yet...

It doesn't sound like this device handles anything beyond "movement" oriented control. Scientists have about a 3% grasp on how the brain functions.... there is a vastly overwhelming majority in the lack of knowledge for now.

Most of that 3% (not exact number) is in the area of motor skills. They understand a lot about how motor skills function...and they are starting to understand how we see. This is evident in the human/brain/machine interfaces that have recently been developed where a person can control a complex machine with their brain and also in how a video camera can be used to feed images directly into the visual cortex of the brain of blind people that had sight in the past.

Perhaps "non tangible" thoughts will be coming down the road soon... but there haven't been any major breakthroughs that I know of yet. This is still pretty huge being able to detect someone's mind attempting to move an object.

I would love to put on a lightweight device that let me play games with my thoughts.

[Folger]

Been there done that!

My company MygameRoom.com reported the development of something simular to this almost a year ago. Though still in the early stages of development it sounds like we are close to the what this company has. Ours is much different looking, but the bicycle helment design that they use seems like it could work. Awful bulky though.

[vtx13s]

I am anxiously awaiting this device. My brother suffered a traumatic brain injury 5 years ago, and is unable to communicate very well at all. It is completely obvious to people that know him that he is thinking and trying to communicate. Sometimes he cries about it, as he gets so completely worn out and frustrated. His mind is working, but it cannot tell his body, including his face and vocal chords, what to do. I am hopeful that this technology can be adapted to help him and people in his position be able to communicate once again. Maybe he can even be a champion scrabble player again!