Using your hands to do things is so last year. Developments in neuroscience and physical computing mean new ways to translate thought into action. Here, some of the latest and more promising uses of your brain waves.
Cool as brains are, historically, they’ve tended to be pretty worthless without a body. Not so anymore thanks to a new generation of mind-control applications that allow people to fly a tiny helicopter, smash a watermelon, even type very, very slowly using nothing but their three pounds of gray matter (and some peripherals).
Okay, so we’re not quite talking Yoda-level telekinesis yet. But even these seemingly minor accomplishments are significant "because they represent the first steps toward a new way of interacting" with physical objects, says Riccardo Girardi, creative director at digital production company B-Reel, which created a mind-control device of its own (see slide show above).
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