http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/ Engadget Comments for Mind controlled motorized wheelchair demonstrated http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/
Pretty creepy - looks like fun.]]>Sep 10th 2007 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/
and it does look like professor x. rofl.]]>Sep 10th 2007 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/"How about the power...to move you?"

-Tenacious D]]>Sep 10th 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/
"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.

"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."

- Dr. Jose Delgado
Director of Neuropsychiatry
Yale University Medical School
Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118
February 24, 1974]]>Sep 10th 2007 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/
Anyway, this is great. I find it interesting that they interface it with vocal control and not some motor control. I can imagine a situation where the person in the chair accidentally uses a control word in conversation, and ends up ramming the person he's talking to.]]>Sep 10th 2007 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/
SPOCK: Captain Pike, did you use Morse code to communicate in that episode?

PIKE: beeep. beeeep. (NO)

Favorite part is when Number One is vaporizing the top of a mountain with a phaser cannon using a trillion Watts of electric death beamed down from the Enterprise, and she casually calls back to the ship and says, "Can you give us any MORE?" You gotta love a woman like that.

This technology does not remind me of Pike's wheelchair so much as the subvocalization communications system used in the "Ghost in the Shell" series. Presumably the output was synthesized speech sent over a radio (without the mouth moving); hearing must have involved wireless cochlear implants.

Seems like the military would be all over that kind of technology! No need for Close Range Engagement hand signals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
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I'd be afraid to fall asleep in that chair - you might end up in the ladies changing rooms, and that would open up all sorts of awkward questions...]]>Sep 11th 2007 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Sep 10th 2007 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/If great minds can control it better, the paralympics could boast the equivalent of acrobatics.]]>Sep 11th 2007 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/
They're going to add this to those little battery carts at the supermarket so all the obese people don't even have to move in order to have the little cart take them around to get even more food.

I can't believe it's actually going to get worse.]]>Sep 11th 2007 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/
"These aren't the droids you're looking for."]]>Sep 12th 2007 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/mind-controlled-motorized-wheelchair-demonstrated/Check it out here:
http://www.ni.com/niweek/keynote_videos.htm
Tuesday 7 August 2007, section called algorithm engineering.
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