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Toys that use brainwaves to “control” what’s happening? Super lame. Gigantic propane fire launchers that use brainwaves to “control” the explosions? Awesome. More »
We’ve seen a few instances of mind-controlled wheel chairs, and now researchers from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, offer us yet another amazing prototype.
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Emotiv’s “mind-reading” controller is a press darling, mainly because it’s really cool. Apparently, though, Emotiv won’t have the headset ready to go for the planned December release, because it doesn’t, strictly speaking, well, work.
It wasn’t supposed to happen—not yet at least—but it did: This past June, a judge in the Indian state of Maharashtra convicted a woman of killing her ex-fiance, citing as proof an EEG scan showing “experiential knowledge” of the crime. Many people do think there’s something to this, that an EEG or MRI scan of the noggin can depict lies and truth if read correctly, but in the US it’s agreed that this is experimental science at best, and snake-oil sales at worst.
