future of gaming?

haven't OCZ or someone already done this?

A well and truelly over blown article there

The technology behind this isnt quite as scifi as it sounds from the article and the idea of putting stuff back in isnt close enough yet to worry about.

This device doesnt "read thoughts" it cant interpret your intentions it has no where near that sort of ability it simply detects eeg signals and puts out a controller response. it cant understand that you want a mouse to move right, it just looks for a certain pattern you could literally program these devices to move the mouse right whilst imagining pain. It doesnt "understand" thoughts it just looks for pre programmed patterns. Its a glorified volt meter...

Invasive surgeries are where the real potential is. they have artificial limbs now where they take the nerves meant to control the lost limb reroute them somewhere else then hook up a computer controller to that location and the patient can literally move mostly like a realy limb, I believe they can get hot and cold sensations from it as well. Rather than taking things from the brain direct they let the brain do the processing and then take the output and route from there.

Its not possible to "read a mind" yet and even more impossible to "write" to the mind at this stage. The closest we come to "writing" to minds is again through invasive means rerouting "inputs" such as ccd camera chips replacing retinas in eyes hooking up to the original optic nerves. We cant come close yet to understanding the brain well enough to have a "radio transmitter" next to the skull beam a picture in to our minds.

I suspect that these devices will still require more conscious effort to control than a mouse due to having to alter your thoughts to make the deevice react appropriately, and thus probably slower to react.

I dont believe this form of "thought control" will be any easier than actually steering the car given the human minds wandering nature I would be very worried about the possibility of unintended actions. We cant even design a decent spam filter yet .

This particular technology really isnt that much of a development from Luigi Galvani's frogs legs in the 1700's. Maybe at some point in the future they will come up with a way to actually udnerstand the human brain, but until then Im not getting excited over a glorified voltmeter.

Computing power isnt the problem. Its our very very limited understanding of the brain. Using TODAYS technology we could implant images sense's etc and read minds if we understood how the brain worked properly.

Now this is far more exciting stuff in my opinion:-http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7559150.stm.

Computer technology isnt the problem, its learning how to decode the way the brain thinks, its programming language if you like, its operating system, at the moment weve done little more than a rough and sketchy map of the motherboard, and learned a little about how to plug things into it. Were taking babysteps towards being system builders when the real trick is creating machine code. Its light years away. Galvani Could "switch the pc on" with this device theyve learnt to plug in the mouse... Its a long long way from being a good programmer.

Thirty years ago somebody could ask "who wants to play a game and to see people blown up in small peaces by rocked launcher?"

I think similar as in case of FPS, if it is done right, then you can feel "some" abstract small level of pain to indicate that you are hit. It should be very "stylistic" and different from actual pain that you would perceive. The same way as you distinguish between actual person murdered and cartoonish TF2 guy blown to pieces, the same way you will be able to distinguish between actual pain and "cartoonish" pain or wetness or cold.