I play mind games all the time! Drives people nuts!

In Soviet Russia , game control you-erm, never mind.

Just remember people. You must think in Russian.

What's bizarre is all the negative comments on this story at GameSpot. It seems a lot of people (primarily gamers, since that's their core audience on that site) are crying foul that this will cause brain cancer, debilitating headaches, or have other monstrous side-effects. I suppose anything's possible, but it's not like Emotiv is releasing a DNI (Direct Neural Interface, plugs physically directly into the brain to send and receive signals) or anything that would permenantly alter brain chemistry or anything like that.

I personally think this is very cool, and mirror what a few people on GameSpot spoke to in terms of partnering this with a VR visor and a Wiimote, putting us damn close to total immersion in games.

The possibilities here are pretty phenomenal. Imagine the evolution of this thing, adding the ability to send rather than just receive these signals. Think too about how that could ultimately cut down on the development time and resources needed for games; the game could transmit templates of objects, environments, and people, which would be decoded by the brain with all the gaps filled in (kind of like the phychology experiments with partially-defined letters that people read as real words due to the brain's ability to fill in the gaps to make something recognizable). That would cut down drastically on the art resources needed during game development.

I'm rambling, but I think this is cool all by itself, and opens the door for even cooler things down the road. Surely, a technology like this would never be abused or misused by anyone...

surely you jest

It's My Secret

Surely they would.

I WOULD!