1. isn't this already possible? or do you mean it would be like that monkey, robot arm and joystick experiment where the specific brainwave pattern was decoded into the correspondent movement?

Posted at 2:30AM on Jun 29th 2007 by TigroSpottystripes Katsu

2. Yeah... except with today technology... still takes a while for the computer to pick up your brainwave for each pattern and movement desire. Some takes more than 3 month, mostly done by hands to assign the pattern to movement.

Some people's brainwave pattern are different than others.

Surely... it is for the disable people, not just some lazy buttheads.

Posted at 2:43AM on Jun 29th 2007 by Nacon

3. I was talking about stuff like CyberLink brain-fingers style of things (it is a headband that monitors several frequency ranges (I think) of brain waves, the intensity of each is passed as a joystick axis or somthing to the computers (in this case the person learns how to do it by biofeedback instead of the computer learning the pattern that shows when doing/visualizing an specific movement)

Posted at 3:08AM on Jun 29th 2007 by TigroSpottystripes Katsu

4. oh, and that headband thing iirc can also pickup eye position as well blinking of each eyelid)

Posted at 3:44AM on Jun 29th 2007 by TigroSpottystripes Katsu

5. Gah, shuck, Akela, you flatter me.

So, just to let you know what's up with all this:

Emotiv and NeuroSky are both on track to put out consumer level EEG helmets in the next 18 months (they say 12, I'm being conservative). I saw both demo at GDC, and you can at least do macroized movement (Emotiv's demo was a Harry Potter game that you could cast spells in by thinking). However, they can also pick up 12+ facial expressions (that's a pretty easily mapped part of the brain through this method) as well as "excitement level" (which falls under the same contextual issues as force feedback, but that's a thesis paper I won't bore you with right now).

If you want to have fun with EEGs OMGRIGHTNOW, there's OpenEEG (openeeg.sourceforge.net - I can only put in 3 URLS in a comment? LAME!), which is a fully open source board (yes I'm probably getting one soon and yes I'm going to do exactly what you think I'm going to do). My current favorite project that's been done with this is the Shifz Cockbot that pours a martini based on how you think about it.

Posted at 4:07AM on Jun 29th 2007 by qDot

6. Well, it killed my anchor tags, oops.

http://www.neurosky.com
http://www.emotiv.com
http://openeeg.sourceforge.net

Posted at 4:07AM on Jun 29th 2007 by qDot

7. And finally:

http://shifz.blogspot.com

Posted at 4:08AM on Jun 29th 2007 by qDot