Some crazy insane highly inventive people in Cupertino have come up with a way of using thought control to manipulate computers. Please note, that’s your thoughts controlling the computer, not the other way around. From the company’s site:
NeuroSky, a fabless semiconductor/module company, has developed a non-invasive neural sensor and signal processing technology that converts brainwaves and eye movements into useful electronic signals to communicate with a wide range of electronic devices, consoles, and computers.
I bet when Louigi Galvani zapped cadavers with electric shocks to watch muscles contract, he never thought that electrical impulses from our brains could be used to control other systems. Still, that’s how the NeuroSky works.
The goal for Neurosky is to create game controllers for less than US$100. The idea is that you could have conscious elements to a game (such as forcing someone to concentrate and drive a car) but that it could also react to the brain’s responses, slowing down the game if it picks up an increase in anxiety or, in the case of doom, spawning yet more demons from the jaws of hell.
The way that Neurosky works is that it uses EEG technologies that measure the electrical signals caused by the brain’s electrical activity, and EOG technologies that measure the electrical activity caused by eye movement. Both sets of technologies aren’t particularly new, but its the ability to manufacture a device that does this cheaply that means that it could seriously upset not just the gaming market, but the medical market too. Personally I can’t wait for it to come out, I think it beats speech recognition any day, after all – why go through the middle man?
Link to Neurosky site.
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