Controlling Electronics Using Your Mind
From: KGO-TV - 01/17/2007
By: Alan Wang

Imagine controlling your electronic appliances, tools or toys by simply using
your mind. Well that's the future and a Silicon Valley company is leading the
way. 

The patented device created by Neurosky in Silicon Valley, uses a mathematic
secret that turns brain waves into commands.  

Stanley Yang, Neurosky CEO: "We essentially created a bunch of different
algorithms. One for each emotion, for example the attention algorithm." 

Interfaced with a video game, you place the cursor on an object. A strong
"attention" reading enables you to push or pull objects.  

A strong "meditation" reading enables you to levitate objects.  

You have to practice gauging your level of concentration, also finding ways
to disrupt it.  

Neurosky simply builds the brain wave-reading component. Other companies like
Ologic apply it to their products like a robot.  

Ted Larson, Ologic CEO: "What we were really the most excited about is you
can pretty much control any mechanical system using their technology. " 

Eventually Ologic wants to use Neurosky's technology to build
thought-controlled robots for the handicapped and elderly and NASA wants to
create robots to help astronauts whose gloves are too bulky to work a joy
stick or hold tools.  

The device can also read neuron pulses, so a blink of your left or right eye
can create a command.  

Neurosky says it will only add about $15 to the consumer product and by next
year, you may already see video games, toys and even cell phones controlled
by your brain waves.  

Read this article and view the video at:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4944111

Links:
Neurosky
http://www.neurosky.com/

Ologic
http://www.ologicinc.com/