Posts tagged mental 
'Mental' episode features video games ... of the mind
Pushing hard into the series' fourth episode, Fox's "Mental" will be airing its fourth episode this week, featuring "an 8-year-old bipolar boy whose life is consumed by a video game he plays in his head." Oh noes! According to the show's main character/handsome devil Chris Vance (aka Dr. Jack Gal...
CES 2009: Mattel's MindFlex gives you Jedi mind powers
The author burnt out several synapses levitating the ball for this photo. Mattel had a booth at CES pimping out things like U.B. Funkeys, a Barbie nail design automatic applicator contraption, and Mindflex, a game that claims to harness the untapped power of your brain's beta waves. These are wave...
Brain fitness software market is very fit
Say what you will about Nintendo, they know how to create new market segments. Case in point, the SmartBrains "State of the Brain Fitness Software Market 2008 report" which cites the Nintendo's Brain Age games as a key driver in growing the brain fitness software market to a $225 million industry, u...
Mind-controlled gaming lands on Popular Mechanic's shortlist
Who says motion control is next-generation? Not Popular Mechanics, who have decreed electroencephalography (EEG), or mind-controlled input, as one of the 10 tech concepts we need to know for 2008. The technology has already proven viable enough to control avatars through Second Life, according to J...
