[games_access] telekinetics
Thomas Westin
thomas at pininteractive.com
Sat Jul 19 15:27:41 EDT 2008
yes, the Cyberlink is old but Brainfingers now have a new device
called NIA on the market, a competitor to Emotiv, with a nice price
tag (150 USD)
I found a pretty thorough review here
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14957
/Thomas
On 17 jul 2008, at 14.37, David Colven wrote:
> On the other hand here is a new device, I await to be convinced!
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7254078.stm
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> Subject: Re: [games_access] telekinetics
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> Our experiences with this device over the 15 years or so it has been
> around is that it possibly act as a sensitive muscle switch but
> ‘mind control’ in any effective way is way beyond the unit’s
> capabilities. I have yet to be convinced after a number of
> demonstrations and trials that is reliable or reproducible enough to
> be effective.
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> David.
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> From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org
> ] On Behalf Of Thomas Westin
> Sent: 16 July 2008 20:58
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> Subject: [games_access] telekinetics
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> here is the Jedi-inspired telekinetic interface prototype I made in
> 2004 with the help of Michael McIntosh, finally got round to make a
> video of it to share with you on this list
>
> - the video was made very early in the morning, hence the hair :)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4tGF_nvt9c
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> not directly GA oriented, more of a technical / game design
> experiment, but devices like NIA and Emotiv is likely going to be
> helpful for GA (this prototype use the predecessor of the NIA)
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