Mattel readies Mindflex- moving a ball with mind control
This is a bit off topic but so cool we had to pass it along. Mattel is getting ready to show off Mindflex, a game that puts your mind to work in a unique way. Mindflex was on display at the CES this year but Kevin and I missed it so it’s good that Mattel has reached out to us to give us the scoop on what looks to be pretty cool.
Mindflex has the gamer don a lightweight headset and then move a foam ball using just brainwave activity. You concentrate on raising and lowering the ball and it just happens. What makes this so unique is that it’s a game, and a great use of technology in its own right. It’s sort of mobile tech in a way; you do move the ball around with your mind. Check it out in the following video:
Wow, is this for real? If it does what it says it’s pretty damn cool.
I knew you were going to make this post before you posted it…..
Turn it into a mouse for UMPCs!
I don’t think this is mind control.
I think it’s something else: muslcle tension or movement, heat, etc.
At the very most, it could possibly be measuring intensity of sort in the brain, but I doubt it.
This reads the activity in your brain. It’s then converts high activity to an on switch and low to an off. It’s pretty simple but put to good FUN use.
Mindflex is in the Toys Hot List, right now.
This game can be a feedback device for focus and relaxation, because when you focus your concentration, it will do that the small foam ball rise on a gently stream of air produces by the fan.
Using physical and mental coordination, you guide the ball through an obstacles course and do it in the less time possible.
It’s amazing.
I think that a toy that can help special needs kids tap into more awareness of their own space