Just because you never heard of it doesn’t mean it hasn’t existed…
released in 2008
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p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 8 months agoI saw a dude play chess with his mind where otherwise he couldn’t. I’ve never even heard of tech like thus so it’s 100% new to me lol
curiousPJ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[I never said it didn’t exist but cool I guess.]
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Is it because you are unfamiliar with adaptive tech? Eye tracking devices allowing quadriplegic people to interact with computers by looking at them and blinking have been around since at least the mid 00s. Like a decade ago the “mind reading” external tech got cheap enough for simplified toys to be made with it. Implanting it directly into the body is a lot of risk for very little benefit.
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just think it’s cool, but fuck me right?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
If you think it’s cool I would hope you think it’s even cooler than you can do this without surgery and that there are literal cheap ass toys you can buy to play with yourself?
Soggy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re presupposing that surgical implants can’t be more responsive, intuitive, speedy, or sophisticated than an external device. The eye trackers are very useful but objectively pretty limited. Non-invasive EEG is weak and distorted because there is skull and more brain in the way, so “resolution” is limited.
If better outcomes are possible by putting electrodes as close to the signal source as can be, why not explore that option?
BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not the person you were responding too but I’d love to learn more about these toys/tech. Are there some key words that would help me search? I’m having some trouble sifting through the search results.