Mindflex Is this shit real?

[Euler]

saw the commercial on sify, but it almost seems like one of those cute fake products for Eureka. Is this real though? I so want this to be real.

http://wpmu.innovation.cfl.mq.edu.au/thomas/files/2009/01/mindflex_468.jpg

[Latrinsorm]

Made by Mattel, get yours here (http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG).

[Celephais]

http://www.emotiv.com/

There are controllers for use in video games that just use brain mapping. They're a bit expensive right now but coming down in price (but generally shitty for things like FPS)

[Euler]

you mean I can just think "attack kobold"

awesome!

[Celephais]

you mean I can just think "attack kobold"

awesome!
Sadly they're not that precise... yet. You could train it so that you'd be able to think "attack" and have that mapped to typing in "attack", but it'd be a very explicit type of thing.

[Euler]

damnit. My fingers get so tired.

In before:

"that's what she said"

[Euler]

showed wife. She said no. :(

[Methais]

http://www.emotiv.com/

There are controllers for use in video games that just use brain mapping. They're a bit expensive right now but coming down in price (but generally shitty for things like FPS)

That would be awesome if you could just think HEADSHOT and then
http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/2/10/633699047863073760-boomheadshot.jpg

[Methais]

WTS English

[AestheticDeath]

This game is merely that, a game. It does not truly measure your brain waves to control the air flow as the game indicates. The headset merely uses your skin surface to complete a circuit and then it controls the fan. Not sure if the headset has the preprogramed routine, or if the base does. I confirmed this function by completing the circuit with my hand (i.e. - Using one hand, I attached the two clips to two fingers and then touched the forehead sensor with a third finger). Now unless brain waves travel through your hand as well, which they don't, the fan in the base began to turn on and off as if though I had it on my head. Thus confirming that the forehead sensor and clip sensors are merely positive and negative connections, and once connected, they complete the circuit and the headset then transmits to the base.

Don't get me wrong, an educated adult will quickly see through the smoke and mirrors and loose interest. But a child won't. They will indeed believe that they are controlling the device and want to show off to their friends. I can also see the educational value for those kids who have trouble concentrating and staying focused. Since they will be in awe of the game, they will learn to concentrate and focus.

Though the game attracted me by the brain wave claim, which it didn't deliver, since I did see the educational value for kids in it, I gave the game to my nephew who was in awe of it as I thought he'd be.
One of the comments from Amazon...

[Bobmuhthol]

Wow, it takes a real genius to figure out that an electronic device would use electricity to work. If the device has any sort of accuracy in increasing the fan when brain activity increases and vice versa, it's obviously not a "preprogamed (sic) routine."


ETA: I'm seriously considering buying this thing just from the demo videos I've been watching.

[Celephais]

Wow, it takes a real genius to figure out that an electronic device would use electricity to work. If the device has any sort of accuracy in increasing the fan when brain activity increases and vice versa, it's obviously not a "preprogamed (sic) routine."


ETA: I'm seriously considering buying this thing just from the demo videos I've been watching.
If you're actually going to get it, spend the extra $25 and get one of the low end emotiv ones that actually hook up to a computer
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-OCZMSNIA-NIA-Impulse-Actuator/dp/B00168VU4U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1255636639&sr=8-1

[Tisket]

There is a show on the History Channel called "That's Impossible" where they looked at mind control technology currently in development and honestly, it seems far more advanced than I expected.

Video of the show can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjU5v1eAvvE

In particular, I found the section starting around 4 min 30 sec in clip 1 of 5 interesting, and there was a later demo of someone controlling a robotic arm with the implant, completely unaware that the arm wasn't actually his own.

Really interesting stuff.

[CrystalTears]

Why the hell is this in the monk folder?

[Tisket]

I think it's a joke on Monk mental powers.

I tried to put myself in Euler's mind and it's a dark and scary place.

[The Dark One]

I jes watched da mind control thing. Was blown away at all dat shit. Amazingly disconcerting. heh.

[Back]

Pft. I don't need some fancy gizmo to move matter with my mind. Every morning I move 180lbs of matter from my bed to my shower using pure mental energy.

[LMingrone]

Here's a Star Wars version: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geek-kids/7-13-years/bf1b/

[AnticorRifling]

Pft. I don't need some fancy gizmo to move matter with my mind. Every morning I move 180lbs of matter from my bed to my shower using pure mental energy.

What's his name?

[Asha]

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