Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Gaming by Mind

A company has developed a helmet-like device, intended as a controller for video games, which it claims can read the wearer's mind. Sort of. It picks up signals from the brain and translates them into character movements on the screen. Theoretically, if you think of what you want the character to do, then the character should match what you're thinking. If it works the way they say it does, that would be cool. The whole article is here.

I'm intrigued by the part where it says that the device "tends to work better with children than adults. 'Part of that is because the kid doesn’t have the same kind of barriers as an adult does. Lots of kids can fantasise about moving a cup and believe it.' " I wonder if it would work as well -- or better -- with magically trained adults as it does with children. I'd especially love to see what a serious technomage could do with one of these things.
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lupagreenwolf

lupagreenwolf

December 12 2007, 17:14:11 UTC 13 years ago

I want something like that for writing--just think the words into place. That would save my hands and wrists so much strain.
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

December 12 2007, 23:56:20 UTC 13 years ago

That might be useful, if the program was fluent enough to keep up. My mind runs *far* ahead of my hands already. I think I'd wind up with fragments all over the page. But it might be interesting to experiment with and see if I could make it work.