Emotiv EPOC gets reviewed by Joystiq, proves once and for all that videogames turn your brain into mush

We don't want to ruin everything for you, but after some extensive testing by our friends over at Joystiq, it looks like the promising Emotiv EPOC needs a little more time in the thought sensing oven. In its review Joystiq points out the fragile, hard-to-handle nature of the $299 device, but more disappointingly found the thought-sensing functionality of the sensor-stuffed EPOC headgear to be a bit too random, haphazard and inaccurate to actually be enjoyable. Of course, you could blindly assume that 400 hours spent in WoW and a six digit gamerscore has somehow disqualified this Joystiqer's mind from those joys of telepathy, but before you plunk down your hard earned cash and shave off contact points all around your skull, we'd say the full review is at least worth a skim.

[Methoxychlor Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:20PM]

Judging by the sane reactions of everyone commenting here, maybe apple should have developed this instead of the iPad in order to be
"revolutionary".

[onlymyrailgun Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:41PM]

Hmmm... I wouldn't know... the status of evolutionary is really up to the historians, and even they don't agree with each other...

Wait, wth is this headgear? Will it re-ignite my interest in WoW?

[xKNGx Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:41PM]

the word iPad is still imprinted in my retinas from this morning,noon, and afternoon

[Ash R Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:47PM]

@xKNGx yeah It's been "revealed" and in < one day and I'm already sick of hearing about it

[hoodieninja Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:46PM]

THERE ARE ONLY OTHER STORIES UNRELATED TO THE IPAD ON THE FRONT PAGE RIGHT NOW

CONSOLIDATE YOUR SHIT ENGADGET

[hoodieninja Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:46PM]

2 other stories**

[onlymyrailgun Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:56PM]

@hoodieninja
I was going to ask you to consolidate your grammar.

[derX Posted Jan 27th 2010 11:22PM]

@onlymyrailgun

LOL!

WTF does that even mean?!

I upranked you regardless.

[CJ Posted Jan 27th 2010 9:02PM]

Guys... Your URL is stuffing up.

I type in "www.engadget.com" and I end up at the /tag/ page for "www".

Clicking the Engadget logo does just reloads the same page.

[Denji Posted Jan 28th 2010 12:09AM]

@CJ

I had a similar problem today myself. I would type 'engadget.com' and it'd send me to a strange website only talking about the iPad for awhile. That's it.

It was bizarre.

[EdZ Posted Jan 27th 2010 10:28PM]

In other news, a device costing several orders of magnitude less than current research equipment fails to outperform research equipment. Shock!

[derX Posted Jan 27th 2010 11:23PM]

@EdZ

Now to find that article that said Asus confirmed their tablet on the wrong day....

[amirmah Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:45AM]

hehehe ... the apple tablet turned out to be an apple suppository! :D

[Veraxus Posted Jan 28th 2010 11:10AM]

My OCZ NIA (aka Brainmouse) works smashingly... after about a month of constant use and practice anyway (it *is* the same technology used by the medical industry to allow paraplegics to pilot wheelchairs). I don't see the need for this thing when another device already does it - but cheaper and better.