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New toys read brain waves.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It's a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.
Behind the mask is a sensor that touches the user's forehead and reads the brain's electrical signals, then sends them to a wireless receiver inside the saber, which lights up when the user is concentrating. The player maintains focus by channeling thoughts on any fixed mental image, or thinking specifically about keeping the light sword on. When the mind wanders, the wand goes dark.
Engineers at NeuroSky Inc. have big plans for brain wave-reading toys and video games. They say the simple Darth Vader game — a relatively crude biofeedback device cloaked in gimmicky garb — portends the coming of more sophisticated devices that could revolutionize the way people play.
Then there was the strangest device of all, a headband, almost, with electrical-signal pickup devices on either side. I could figure out no use for this thing whatsoever unless whoever used it did so as a fancy hair band. ...Maybe it picked up brain waves....
It took a long time to harvest this technology, but fifty years after Roswell, versions of these devices eventually became a component of the navigational control system for some of the army's most sophisticated helicopters and will soon be on the American consumer electronics market as user-input devices for personal computer games.
(in describing the EBE headband found in the wreckage of the crashed ufo roswell, nm)
Domain Name: NEUROSKY.COM
Domain Status: ACTIVE
Registrar: Korea Information Certificate Authority, Inc. dba DomainCA.com
Referral URL: www.DomainCA.com...
Registrant:
Lims Technology co., Ltd.
#1801 Dong-a Officetel Bongmyeong-dong
Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, 305709
KR
Administrative, Technical Contact:
jong-woo Lim [email protected]
#1801 Dong-a Officetel Bongmyeong-dong
Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, 305709
KR
(TEL) +82.428259844, (FAX) +82.428259955
Billing Contact:
jong-woo Lim [email protected]
#1801 Dong-a Officetel Bongmyeong-dong
Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, 305709
KR
(TEL) +82.428259844, (FAX) +82.428259955
Originally posted by WhiteWash
twitchy:
it is interesting you should say that.
The company in this article Neurosky:
Their whois info for their website says it is in korea.
Interesting.