Toyota's mind-controlled wheelchair boast fastest brainwave analysis yet, most stylish EEG cap
By Ross Miller 
posted Jun 30th 2009 3:13AM
posted Jun 30th 2009 3:13AM
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hmm.... let's say some techician was sleepy and in a hurry... crossed the wires on the control box..... :D
I thought he was getting his hair did.
Wow that's awesome, can't wait until it becomes more advanced and publicly available!
Macross Plus here we come!!!!
Does that make this guy Professor Xavier?
Yes.
ironically, once he donned the wheelchair-telepathy helmet he lost all control over his legs.
Steven Hawking will most likely have to use something like this in the next five or ten years. :( kind of sad really
A new high point in laziness has been achieved
do you have to shave your head to use it?
No. In the video, you can see when the guy shows off the shower cap he has a full head of hair sticking out in front.
Lets see GM develop such advanced mobility tech like that! This is true innovation, something you'll only find in the crazy world of japan.
sorry, i LOLed at the url /2009/06/30/toyotas-mind-controlled-wheelchair-boast-fastest-brainwave-anal/
Would never have noticed...
Prof X: "Hey, who took my chair?!?!"
The guy in the "Twister" cap.
There's probably more of a Macross Plus-like angle to be feared with this thing. Imagine being near a staircase, only to have someone mention what it'd be like to take a tumble down it... followed by the chair suddenly lurching forward over the edge simply because you briefly thought about the scenario.
The snide remarks about the cap are really uncalled for. It's bad enough that there are paralyzed people confined to a wheelchair for life. Making fun of the appearance of something that has promise for improving their lives is really insensitive.
P.S. If you want to make some kind of dumbass remark to let everyone know that you think that empathy is for wusses, skip it.
Thanks for the adult response. The headline is juvenile as well, "stylish".
Empathy aside, I hope none of these postoids have to spend forty years in a wheelchair like my brother, Ed.
Maybe in forty more years, spinal cord injuries will be the stuff of history, what with stem cell research and electronic advances.
Until then, nice prototype, Toyota.
Have a nice cup of STFU, please.
Nobody's mocking the disabled. Get real. Your holier-than-thou comment is bullshit. If you don't appreciate the sarcasm/humor of Engadget's headlines, GTFO, because you're definitely in the slim minority.
The final model will probably have user-selectable do-rag covers that fit over the cap, for personalization and customization. Customizable caps covers should expect to feature Gundam, Evengelion, and Hello Kitty themes in Japan.
Show me the mind-controlled jetpack, and I'll be impressed.
I have to wonder, why does it matter to you that people can find humor it the cool things in life. They aren't mocking people in wheel chairs, just the silly future hats they have to wear.
I want one! Not the wheelchair, that is . . . but the range of do-it-yourself EEG gear on the market is remarkably small. How come you can get every kind of quack gizmo there is but nothing to explore (pause for deep-voiced announcer) . . . "the worlds within!"
I would check the URL created for this story.... the last word in the URL... LOL!!!
creepy
unfortunately, the remaining 5% of inaccuracies lead to incomprehensible pain and suffering.
How long until there's a video of researchers drifting these chairs?
Does toyota have a dev. team working on one of those asimo style robots? if so, connect this badboy to it and you got yourself a slow, badly coordinated single robot army!
EEG stuff will always be limited, you can just only get very warped muffled bunched data through the skull like that, and although processing can do cool tricks it's still like listening to a conversation in an underwater dancejoint while wearing earplugs and being deaf and having a hearing implant.
What happens when you sneeze?
This sort of technology is obviously just the start, once brainwave entrainment starts becoming more mainstream, I reckon we will see it integrated into all sorts of products.
Yeah Wwhat, you are right to an extent, though in combination with brainwave entrainment an EEG has so much more to offer.