Star Wars Force Trainer teaches children to kill... with their minds
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted January 13th 2009 10:26AM
posted January 13th 2009 10:26AM
Toy maker Uncle Milton has introduced Force Trainer, a game that utilizes NeuroSky's brainwave-controlled gaming technology. In a manner similar to the Mindflex we got our heads on at CES, the young Jedi dons a wireless headset that communicates with a simplified EEG. If you focus well enough, the "training sphere" rises in a 10-inch tube. Seems pretty harmless, no? At least until your humble child starts lifting rocks and choking people by simply furrowing their brow and gesturing menacingly. If you find this an acceptable risk (or you feel the need to work on your own mental prowess) the thing should be available this fall for just under $100.
And you thought WoW addiction was bad? Wait until the hard-core Star Wars fanbois get ahold of this...
Children with frekin laser beams attached to their heads!!!
Anyone remember the Krell "educator" device from "Forbidden Planet"?
I mentioned that on another website.
What makes you automatically assume we don't WAN T an army of superpowered children. Anyone read Ender's Game?
hey yeah that book is awesome!
oh good memories
Sounds like basic Bio Feedback systems that have been around for decades. It simply measures stress in the muscles in the head by how much electrical impulses are running through the muscles. Then relates that to a high or low input to the "game" (I use the term loosely)
Medical practitioners and psychologists have used the technology for years to teach folk how to relax muscles and even help quit smoking. Hardly anything revolutionary.
Actually it's even fine then....
Unless they start wearing contacts!
Yeah, I can see playing this for hours on end... NOT!!! Geez, make the ball go up and down, how freakin' lame is that!