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Now you can play the game using your mind alone |
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New Technology
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Written by Team Josh
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
Forget the joystick or mouse while playing your favorite video games. If current researches go ahead, in future you would be playing games using your brain power alone.
Many researchers are working in this field. Now, students at the US-based Drexel University have taken a “hands-off” approach and developed a novel game controller that allows players to execute actions using only their mind.
The device looks like a headband and is equipped with sensors that measure brain activity. By shining near-infrared light into the skull and measuring the intensity of light reflected back, oxygen levels corresponding to brain activity can be recorded.
The device, originally developed to monitor the brain of patients under anaesthesia, serves as a controller for the Drexel-developed video game Lazybrains.
Lazybrains features Morby, a couch potato transported to a dangerous fantasy world as punishment for not exercising his brain.
Morby must use his mental power to navigate through obstacles to find his way back home.
Players must still use a keyboard to make Morby run and jump; however, special actions such as lifting a manhole cover require players to put the controller down and use their brain. When the game senses that enough mental power has been exerted, the manhole cover is lifted and the player can proceed.
The device is in development stage and it will take time to develop it further.
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