Playing With Your Head
from the look-no-hands dept
While it’s been suggested before, a bunch of researchers at Washington University have actually developed way to control a video game using brainwaves measured by invasively placing electrodes on a human brain. (This is not to be confused with the EEG electrodes that are placed non-invasively on top of the head.) Four adult epilepsy patients were being studied with these brain implants, and they could fairly accurately control virtual movements just by thinking. Amazingly, this method only takes about an hour to learn how to move things, compared to months of training when they use the method that doesn’t involve opening up the skull. While this is certainly a breakthrough for patients with disabilities, far in the future this could be a commonplace human-computer interface.
