Toy Reads Your Mind... By Mattel
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 11:46am |
 Coolness: 158335 | [ www.montrealgazette.com ]
Breakthrough toy can read your mind, move objects By Vito Pilieci, Ottawa CitizenJanuary 8, 2009 OTTAWA — New technology that gives people the ability to move objects with their minds will soon be available at North American toy stores — and unlike those goofy X-ray specs from the 1960s, it will work. Mattel Inc. has created a game that can read a child's mind and use thoughts to manoeuvre a small foam ball through a table-top obstacle course. Called the Mind Flex, the game uses technology that reads the electrical impulses — called bio-feedback — that happen within a brain while a person is thinking. A device that looks like a pair of headphones sits on the child's head and tracks brain activity. Within the obstacle course are small fans that are activated when a child thinks. The more brain activity a child produces, the faster the fans blow. The game's goal is to have the child "think" the little foam ball through the obstacle course. The toy, to be officially revealed this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, will be in stores later this year and will be targeted at children ages eight and older. It will retail for $80 US. Canadian pricing has not been released. While the technology may sound like it came straight from Star Trek, researchers have long been working on ways to use brain activity to direct machines. "It all goes back to neurofeedback that has been around for 50 years, where you can record activity coming from the human brain through the scalp," said Melvyn Goodale, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario. "It has the outside look of a science-fiction theme. You are controlling things through mind waves. But things like this have been around in various science museums for some time." Goodale said a museum in Sarasota, Fla., displays a similar toy that pits two competitors against one another. Instead of floating a ball through an obstacle course, each player had to try to score a goal in a competitor's net. The person who could create and sustain the most brain activity would power a set of fans that pushed a foam ball into the rival's goal. Scientists are also delving into the mind-over-matter technology, hoping to isolate specific brain activity with the goal of allowing people to interface with a computer or TV without a mouse, remote or a keyboard. Other potential uses for the technology would include helping people who have lost their limbs to control robotic prosthetics. "There are attempts to actually record activity of specific parts of the brain," said Goodale. "To use electrodes to record the activity of groups of cells of patients with spinal cord damage to get them to control robot arms, wheel chairs or cursors on a computer screen." Science may be close to a breakthrough, according to Goodale. He said several research papers detail advanced ways of capturing brain activity and tests are already under way. The day when man and machine can communicate may not be far off. "We've been working for 20 or 30 years on this mind-Borg or Cyborg stuff. All of these things are examples of new interfaces between humans and machines," said Steve Mann, a professor with the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto. Mann himself has been called the world's first "cyborg," and is famous for having created "wearable computers" that allow him to interact with devices. ------------------- Uh, wow. I'm considering it. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 11:55am |
 Coolness: 106215 | Cool... scary. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 11:58am |
 Coolness: 685690 | Now to couple it with motion-sensing VR glasses and 5.1 surround headphones and hook up some FPS... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» qwertyu replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 12:33pm |
 Coolness: 72980 | i want the same technology to control the cursor on my computer screen
That would be so amazing, i would try to open my email account, or to show some youtube things to a friend, and then a porn website would open instead because on the back of my mind i would be thinking about tits xD |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Tamala replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 1:45pm |
 Coolness: 165740 | Amazing, I want one! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» v.2-1 replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 2:10pm |
 Coolness: 159220 | It starts with a little foam ball and will end with mind controlling my neighbors and having them shovel snow at -25 completely naked for my own personal enjoyment. :) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 2:11pm |
 Coolness: 295075 | Originally Posted By V.2.0.MINUS.1
It starts with a little foam ball and will end with mind controlling my neighbors and having them shovel snow at -25 completely naked for my own personal enjoyment. :) I wouldn't make him to it later, since he would die. and I want him to do it each time it snows!!! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Rammius replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 2:47pm |
 Coolness: 32395 | Pretty cool, looking forward to what the future will bring with mind-controlled technology |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 3:48pm |
 Coolness: 166645 | that is sooo cool. i want a device like that for DJing... look Ma, no hands! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ApR1zM replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 6:37pm |
 Coolness: 164900 | i cant wait until LOGITECH does something like that for a mouse hehahaeheah
okee this is going to make us even lazier!!!!! SOLD! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» clown replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 6:40pm |
 Coolness: 221865 | definatly awesome-sausy !! :) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Strik_IX replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 6:41pm |
 Coolness: 88740 | Mind reading technology... this shit is scary imo. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:06pm |
| Coolness: 106215 | Originally Posted By STRIK_IX
Mind reading technology... this shit is scary imo. Specially if it works the other way around... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:16pm |
| Coolness: 685690 | It's not really mind-reading in the sence that it 'knows' your thoughts.. That would be WAY the fuck more expensive and not used in children's toys untill 2109, let alone 2009...
You're gonna have to calibrate it through a routine, like, each fan is gonna be numbered 1 to 4, and for 5 seconds you have to think/concentrate on the number of the fan so that the thing can associate your thought of "1" with it's internal triggering of "1", etc.. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Strik_IX replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:16pm |
| Coolness: 88740 | imo scary is shit this... technology reading mind? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:20pm |
| Coolness: 106215 | If the toy's are out, what do you think the millitary has? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:20pm |
| Coolness: 685690 | It's not "reading" your mind, more like it's analyzing your brainwaves, but it has to be calibrated specifically for you. If you use it and I put it on, it's not going to work, because everyone's way of thinking is even more unique than your fingerprint.
If you calibrate this machine to sense when you're thinking #1 through 4 specifically, you couldn't be plugged in and have your thoughts read, because there's no one way that a person thinks, everyone is unique. There are similar ways/paterns, like if you're thinking of words/numbers, certain specific areas of the brain would be stimulated, but they're at the very least a hundred years away from being able to translate thought into input in a way that could be used to determine what you're thinking. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:21pm |
| Coolness: 166645 | Originally Posted By DATABOY
If the toy's are out, what do you think the millitary has? fun? :P |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:21pm |
| Coolness: 106215 | The toy in and of itself isn't scary, its what comes after... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Rakoon replied on Fri Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:24pm |
 Coolness: 175540 | sextoys? |
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