Mind-controlled PONG featured at CeBIT

Brain-computer interfaces hold enormous promise for perfecting prosthetics, assisting quadriplegics, and improving vehicle safety. So what's the first application shown off at the CeBIT 2006 show? A way of playing (and losing) a game of PONG... with - your - mind.

Sure, you could also check out a typing application that's still in the pre-beta-alpha stage below (man, typing on a post on that would take... a very long time), but playing an ancient arcade game with no hands seems like a more entertaining proposition at this point.

See also:

• The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface from Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller
• A short video clip of that brain-typing application
• A look back at Joystiq posts featuring the word "PONG"
• 5.46 GHz PC shown at CeBIT
• Japanese doctors recommend Brain Training for seniors