http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/ Engadget Comments for Teenager plays Space Invaders with only his brain http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/
That version of space invaders isnt the 2600 one.
Fact! Space Invaders 2600 was the first game I ever played.. Downhill from there.

Nintendo will have their hands all over this if they are clever, they love all this brain training stuff.

Why couldnt Ben Heck have done this, then we'd have step by step instructions on how to build our own skull cap and interface it with the 2600's 9pin serial controller ports.

I want one of these brain interfaces for my Mame Cab. But those snobby scientists wont tell me how to make one.]]>Oct 11th 2006 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/
Might as well test a new pill to stop migraine headaches on somebody suffering from acid reflux.]]>Oct 11th 2006 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/]]>Oct 11th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/
I suppose, then, it's an argument of journalistic style. Obviously, it's the electrodes that are more important in this research. At best, the epilepsy information is useful as an explanation of why the electrodes are there. Based on general rules of journalism, the most important information should come first (since not everybody reads the whole article ;-) ) and useless technical detail comes later.

For example, in a sports story, it'd be retarded to point out in paragraph one that "the Mets hit 4 grand slams against the Dodgers Saturday night" then wait until paragragh 23 to say "the Mets lost 17 to 16." The idea of sifting through a whole article to get to the point that "the Mets lost" is not realistic. Likewise, by pointing out the epilepsy so far in advance of the useful information, the writer was missing the point and leading many casual readers, such as myself, to miss the point as well. Honestly, if somebody's showing me a new technology, I'd care more about the fact that I'd need to get electrodes implanted in my brain than the fact that the boy demonstrating it has some disease that only affected the research in an indirect way.]]>Oct 11th 2006 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/
anyway: it does seem like there are more and more of these brain-computer-interaction stories lately. The electrode-in-the brain idea seems like a good one for, say, creating motion for artificial limbs...but as far as games go, I think I'd stick to the "helmet with a bunch of sensors" thing. It'll be interesting in 20 (50? 100?) years or so when this tech reaches the actual gaming market...at that point, the argument over who takes their gaming most seriously may have evolved from "my video card's better than yours" to "I've got 185 sensors under my skull, and you're still wearing that silly cap."]]>Oct 11th 2006 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/Oct 11th 2006 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/teenager-plays-space-invaders-with-only-his-brain/http://www.atariage.com/screenshot_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=459&ItemTypeID=SCREENSHOT) for a reference. Anyway... just odd that no one else noticed that. Oh and lame on the part of the photographer. I'm amazed by 'news' people that try to get the photo they think they should have instead of the guys actually playing or doing research... oh yeah, that doesn't get your picture in the paper then...
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