Thinking cap lets you control cursor using brainwaves

Getting us one tiny step closer to our goal of never having to use a mouse ever again, scientists at the New York State Department of Health and State University of New York in Albany have figured out another non-invasive way for people to use their thoughts to control an onscreen cursor. It involves wearing a special thinking cap with 64 electrods on it, and so far they've gotten it to work with four different people.

P.S. - Since you're probably wondering, that pic at right shows a record of one person's thought-controlled cursor movements, with blue where they were moving the cursor more slowly, and red where they were able to move it more quickly.

[Adam. @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

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That would be interesting at the office.

[James @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

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Brings all new meaning to Nipple Mouse

[brickballs @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

LOL

[Saheli Datta @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

Thanks for a great post. As I blogged ( http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com/2004/12/thought-and-action-its-amazing-day-for.html ) you can actually read the paper on PNAS, and watch a movie of one of the trials. ( http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0403504101v1?view=abstract )

[Saheli Datta @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

As I've blogged again ( http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com/2004/12/thought-and-action-part-ii.html ) there's a product out there in commercial production available at http://www.brainfingers.com .