The beyond enters videogaming!

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:46 pm

Sorry for the ebay link, but I don't want to go search up a homepage or something for this:

Videogame that reads your mind!

Scary huh?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:04 pm

Do with requirments of only a 486 I'm thinking that thing is like the Atari mind-whatever. And the Atari item had you move your eyebrows to control the pong pattles.

Really I've seen that they've experimented with thought control, but the most I saw was a pilot in a simulator controlling the right-left direntions. I think by the time PS9 is out we'll have these mind controls.

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:32 pm

When you think about it, aren't all video games thought controlled?

you have to think about the game and your brain makes your hands operate the conteroller!

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:44 pm

oooh! OWNED

!!!

(no, not "PWNED", that's a stupid typo

)

warmachine · Post by **warmachine** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:56 pm

Hey, I saw one of those at Comp [Crap] USA back in like '94. They had it on display with some kind of skiing game. It was fun; you stuck you pointer finger in this slot and made contact with a small metal plate and, apparently, you could control the direction by thinkning "left" or "right." Neat concept, but a doomed product.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:08 pm

The whole background story to the device sounds like something out of a James Bond movie. There is absolutely nothing fantastic or extraordinary about this device that I can see, though I'm not sure exactly how it detects the electromagnetic patterns in your brain. You would simply need to think angry thoughts, take a 'snapshot' of the electrical activity in your brain and set it as UP or DOWN, A, B, etc, in the console, and repeat for each button command using the most distinct thoughts/feelings you can come up with.

I'm rambling at the moment.

Post by **Gamelver** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:53 pm

how would you do two buttons though

? feel mad AND happy or something

?

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:09 pm

wouldnt ity ride on visual input so you just have to think more actions instead of bouth thoughts at once.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:02 pm

Looks like a Galvanic Skin Response Sensor

Post by **Skyone** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:03 pm

That's wierd. I'm scared of putting one of those on and somehow automatically becoming bisexual.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:05 pm

Skyone wrote:That's wierd. I'm scared of putting one of those on and somehow automatically becoming bisexual.

Wow, yeah. LOL!