
SAN JOSE, California (AP) — 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. [Read full article on CNN.com]





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There’ve been games (more like software applications, really) that have done this for quite some time. Also, I don’t think I trust any article that calls GTA a “popular first-person shooter.”
PS – Sony owns a theoretical patent on technology that literally beams audiovisual signals directly into your brain. I’m totally cereal.
Left by Sam on May 3rd, 2007