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Thats pretty damn cool. I have a whole new line of wimmens skirts to design....
It's still cool, even when you know how it works :D
Why did they go with imagining a fist to make it turn right? Seems pretty counter-intutive and clearly requires a great deal of concentration. Why not just imagine it turning right to make it turn right?
Quote from: "Hydra009"Why did they go with imagining a fist to make it turn right? Seems pretty counter-intuitive and clearly requires a great deal of concentration. Why not just imagine it turning right to make it turn right?
Maybe that's the only way they could get a signal close enough to the outer layer of the brain to be readable.
I'm guessing because it's easier to detect someone thinking about operating one of their own body parts than it is to detect someone thinking about controlling a very specific kind of object that is not a part of their body.
But this is really cool. Mind control tricks are awesome.
"Thinking" about moving a body part actually results in signals to move that part. Even in paralytics, if they "try to" move a hand or a foot, the brain sends out those signals. (The paralysis isn't caused by a malfunction in the brain.) It's a lot easier for a paralyzed person to "try to" say reach for something to control a robotic arm than it would be for him to think of the letters r, f, g ("reach for glass"). And a lot easier to detect, since motor control signals are distinct, large and easy to recognize.
And that's the goal of this little exercise - to help the handicapped. (If it were to control a little flying platform, movement of the head would probably be better, with the addition of a finger movement or something similar to control fan speed. But that's not the goal.)