This thing seems to be a later iteration of the Atari Mindlink idea from the 1980s, which presented the illusion of controlling the game with just your thoughts/brain waves/whatever but which was actually just reading the neuromuscular voltage from your forehead (meaning you scrunch your forehead muscles around to control it).
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curiousPJ@lemmy.world 1 month agoYou don’t even need to be inserting probes to be able to do that…
OCZ had this ‘toy’ out in 2008.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
deafboy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I still have this, but suspect it’s bricked after I’ve pressed the “do not press” button on the side. (i’m a filthy button pusher) If anybody has some firmware dumps or at least documentation, I’d appreciate it.
Never managed to use the brainwaves, but it was sensitive to the facial muscle movement. Good enough to play pong.
reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
ok but the real interesting stuff like reading hand writing from a paralyzed person imagining writing it and etc are all only for actual electrodes in brains.