CES 2013: Flying a Helicopter With My Brain [Video]: Puzzlebox uses the Neurosky headset and a tablet to let me

CES 2013: Flying a Helicopter With My Brain [Video]

CES 2013: Flying a Helicopter With My Brain [Video]: Puzzlebox uses the Neurosky headset and a tablet to let me

I’ve tried out the Neurosky MindWave peripheral before . It’s a headband with EEG sensors that, paired with software, let’s you control things by thinking. It’s a pretty rudimentary form of control, essentially a dial-up/dial-down function; concentrating activates the controller, losing focus stops whatever you’ve doing. In past years, I played video games with the device , with limited success. It’s one thing trying to move an object on a screen by thinking about it. Yeah, you can do it, but it doesn’t seem like a big deal. It’s vastly more interesting (and potentially embarassing) to move a real object through space. So I couldn’t resist trying the latest gadget to use the Neurosky interface, the Puzzlebox Orbit, from a little company called Puzzlebox. The Orbit is a helicopter inside an orb (to keep it from damaging itself when it inevitably crashes). The whole thing is...

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