Results tagged “braincomputerinterface” from 60 Second Science

For the first time ever, monkeys walking on treadmills in the U.S. can control robots on treadmills in Japan. This news has been brought to you by Duke University Medical Center researchers along with the Computational Brain Project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency

Also: CGI of monkeys walking treadmills:

Now that we've partnered the increasingly dangerous monkeys with increasingly dangerous robots, the lasers are that much more important.

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Another CES video dispatch: Emotiv Technologies showed off their latest collaboration with IBM, a brainwave-reading gaming interface. It sits on your head (looking sort of like the SQUID rig from Strange Days... did anyone else ever see that besides me?) and lets you control virtual stuff with your mind.

For example, an onscreen avatar will smile when you smile, or adopt a Matthew-McConaghey-like body posture when it senses you're feeling relaxed. (Emotiv says the rig could be also be used for autism research, among other non-gaming applications.)

Or you can concentrate and move game objects telekinetically a la The Force. Check out this video - near the end, Marco The Emotiv Rep does a damn good Skywalker impression.