Mind-controlled PONG featured at CeBIT

Pffft, i saw Ski Free being played with brain control on It'll Never Work on BBC1 around 1994 (if not earlier)!

Hmmm... Watch BOTH screens (on the left and on the right) Notice that everything is the same! The score, the paddle movements, the ball, and the lose! Is it just a video on their screens???? Wierd!

woops I forgot to add one extremly important thing to what I said above:

LOL!

The screens are the same because they are playing eachother.

Hmmm....they could make that wireless with bluetooh. Imagine a headset you wear and you can walk around "willing" your tv on, turning on lights in the house, ordering you attack robot to kill...wait.

Big whup. Atari Mindlink Controller, circa 1984.

MIT has been doing things like this for years. I believe a Pac Man clone also exists. Another popular brain computer interface involves moving a mouse cursor.
Basically this serves as a way of setting up the basic thoughts for up, down, left, right movements. Later the same movements can be connected to computer controlled prostetics and help paralyzed individuals do things like feed themselves or move their wheelchair without the need of someone else 24 / 7.

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#5 Jeremy: There's a world of difference between controlling games with muscles in your forehead and controlling games with your mind. Atari Mindlink... *laughs* Shall we discuss the paralells between the Power Glove and the Revolution controller? God, ignorance irks me.

Hm, interesting. I can't wait for mindfragging in UT2010. Who needs an aimbot when you can simply look at a guy to shoot him? What are complainers gonna say then, "hey, you think too fast!!"? :)

And that's not even touching on how cool an RPG would be. So long, mouse and keyboard, if I can see it I can grab it without even pointing right at it.

Or, heck, to go full circle, imagine a Star Wars game allowing REAL FORCE POWERS. OK, you're controlling the game with your mind, and in the game you're using The Force with your mind, thus making the Force powers REAL.

Wow. It's like 2001: A Space Odyssey all over again. Brrr.

The reason that this is so impressive is that to do something like this before, (the users appear to simply be wearing some sort of helmet rather than having a set of electrode's placed in their brain) is that this is an external brain interface. Only a few years ago, the only way of doing this was to isolate the user in a special room that eliminated all magnetic fields so the sensors could pick up the brain signals from the outside of the head. Actually being able to to this in an open environment is a HUGE step. Brain control with this is actually now possible in the world outside a protected lab. Cheers! I can't wait to see where they take this next.

whoops, my bad, I was thinking of the process of detecting the pulses using a magnetic field, not surface electrodes as in this case, still quite impressive though.