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awesome sauce · Aug 01, 2008, 04:54 AM // 04:54

Check this thing out. It senses different types of brain signals and binds each one with a key or mouse button for gaming, thus allowing you to shoot before your finger even hits the left mouse, among other uses.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...pulse_actuator

A11Eur0 · Aug 01, 2008, 05:00 AM // 05:00

I'll believe that when I see it.

I'll bet you'll see a ton of newly shaved heads from people wanting to get the lowest possible interference with the device.

That'll also get in the way of my headset.

awesome sauce · Aug 01, 2008, 05:10 AM // 05:10

Well here is a video of someone supposedly using it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKd_AJUUT7Q

looks like it works pretty well, all he needs is the mouse to control the aiming. He's using his mind to control forward/backward movement, strafing, and firing.

GoodApollo1234 · Aug 01, 2008, 05:26 AM // 05:26

If I had $160 laying around, I'd buy it and try it out. Looks interesting, but I seriously doubt it works very well.

Brianna · Aug 01, 2008, 06:24 AM // 06:24

Hmm and it's only 160$, I'd say for that kind of thing it is pretty cheap, at least seemingly. They would usually charge out the arse for things like this.

I'll have to try it someday, it looks kind of fun.

Nightmares Hammer · Aug 01, 2008, 06:25 AM // 06:25

I wonder how it would handle with Guild Wars...

Dark Kal · Aug 01, 2008, 06:27 AM // 06:27

Nice step towards future technology but I'll wait for it to get out of it's infancy.

Evil Genius · Aug 01, 2008, 06:47 AM // 06:47

I read about this a couple of weeks back. Here's a review: http://hothardware.com/Articles/OCZ_...ter_Interface/

Alexandra-Sweet · Aug 01, 2008, 09:44 AM // 09:44

Seeing how many brainless people play games these days, it probably won't be much of a success.

Smurf Minions · Aug 01, 2008, 09:54 AM // 09:54

Haha, target 5, infuse gg you wont even need to move your hands :P

Dark Kal · Aug 01, 2008, 09:55 AM // 09:55

Burn.

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Brianna · Aug 01, 2008, 10:16 AM // 10:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexandra-Sweet

Seeing how many brainless people play games these days, it probably won't be much of a success.

Rofl... yeah, someone thinks ''Mm boobs'' *Actuator goes crazy*.

Jk, but it will be fun to see how far/advanced this gets, hopefully it reaches a successful stage later.

isamu kurosawa · Aug 01, 2008, 11:48 AM // 11:48

I can see someting like this being pretty effective if they used the technology that has been applied to the latest artificial arms/hands that have been developed.

Just imagine actually being able to eat/drink while playing because you don't need your hands!

Wander if a strategy game would give you a headache

Abedeus · Aug 01, 2008, 12:09 PM // 12:09

There is also a monitor that moves mouse where you look. Funny, that when men tested it, cursor was on... female ladies quite often ;p But this has been done 20 years ago, didn't work, now it's quite good.. But after 5 minutes you get a headacke.

btw: That monitor costs ~$7500, so it's more of a niuanse right now than a serious thing.

zamial · Aug 01, 2008, 01:29 PM // 13:29

I wish I had the money to actually test this. I wonder how well it would work coupled with voice recognition..... no more keyboard or mouse........

Maybe 1 day.....

Lord Sojar · Aug 02, 2008, 05:03 AM // 05:03

I would find it very funny if people posted on like the Newegg reviews, "Didn't work for me! Junk!"

Hmmm, wonder why... lol.

This technology is rather simple actually. Surprised it took them this long for such a simple device.

hurdlebeast · Aug 02, 2008, 09:52 AM // 09:52

There is this one and the Project Epoc by Emotiv, theirs is coming out in a few months and you can "preorder" from them. I've been following both for a while, the OCZ headband (it originally was a wider headband) seems to be simpler yet more reliable, and the Epoc seems to be more complex but less reliable, ie slower response time. What I want to do is buy the Epoc, use the free coding software the comes with it, and see if there is a program that is used to code the high-end RC helicopter remotes. I want to plug the remote into the laptop, and somehow sync the two programs so that the input messages from my brain can be directly relayed into the controller and then transmitted to a receiver, which will be on the robot that I will build. The hardest part is going to be the synchronization of the two programs, might need a dedicated Unix virtual machine or something, mebbe use VMWare to run linux through.

Mind controlled robots, anyone?

Edit: these things are slightly ineffective because they are non-invasive, meaning they don't stick needles all through your brain to pick up electrical brain signals. dunno if what i just said makes any sense, it's 5am here and i'm tired.