This prototype mind-controlled wheelchair developed from the University of Electro-Communications in Japan lets you feel like half Professor X and half Stephen Hawking—except with the theoretical physics skills of the former and the telekinetic skills of the latter. A little different from the Brain-Computer Typing machine we saw a while back, this thing works by mapping brain waves when you think about moving left, right, forward or back, and then assigns that to a wheelchair command of actually moving left, right, forward or back.
https://gizmodo.com/brain-computer-typing-186379
The result of this is that you can move the wheelchair solely with the power of your mind. This device doesn’t give you MIND BULLETS (apologies to Tenacious D) but it does allow people who can’t use other wheelchairs get around easier.
Nikkei Net(Japanese) [via Pink Tentacle via slashgear]
