It got arduino!!!11 One of the few arduino projects!

nice room, looks like he lives in the basement.

This is very applicable:

you could have it change the channel according to how interested you are…

you could skip ads and play normally when you see the show you want to see in your PVR’ed TV episodes.

useful to determine ratings?

there are more, I’m sure!

@paul-the problem is that this technology collects none of that information. At the moment it is just a novelty. Until the underlying science progresses the kinds of applications you mention aren’t possible, but it will be really cool in the future.

So… If you get too enthralled by the tv show (Say trying to figure out whodunit, or watching mythbusters) the tv will turn off? No thank you.

Hi! Can you do it without moving your hand? Just wondering if it’s the muscle impulses that affect your results, not EEG.

does it work with panties ?

The “Reason” for a given thing being Hacked often simply is because WE CAN. Then, we have a set of Hacking projects that are more dramatic for what they are doing that few others even come close to.

Do take under consideration what Paul has done with EEG tech as turning a “Gaming Toy” into something more useful. A little further improvement might end up giving many people a “Chance to Communicate” that they might not EVER have a chance for any other way. This EEG Hacking project is potentially going to give hope to many folks trapped in their minds, unable to get a thought in or out of their skulls!

Take a moment envision finding *YOU* are instantly in that reality- your brain has lost all Sensorium and ALL control of your body. We’re not talking about a mythical “someone else” either. The grim reality is- more than a few of you reading this are only a millisecond’s Spinal Damage etc away from being trapped in your own skull.

Having Cheap, Functional Off-The-Shelf tech to make life for folks needing EEG as communication is a step closer to reality thanks to Paul’s work.

i used to be able to do that. no modification to the tv. but then i took the drugs issued to me by THE MAN, and my powers of technopathy are fuckin gone. any ideas on how to hack my brain back into that state, other than the original neuro-hack that i did in Nov. 2006?

memento on it

This technology interests me quite a bit, but I just can’t seem to think of many good applications for it in this state.

It is really limited to just toggling something on and off, and even then, doing so requires considerable concentration (as seen in the video). Of course, this is very early consumer hardware, later revisions should have considerably better resolution.

But it seems a lot of people are expecting a whole lot more from this technology then we are likely to see in the near future. We are a long way off from actually being able to “see” what a person is thinking.

@oren beck

cool story bro

what about that kid with the remote behind the camera :)

It seems like it has a high error rate, otherwise he would have been able to have it on while he was talking. Although, that could also be skill-rated too.

I hate to see what would happen to a TV when I were to connect my mind to it, and see those annoying commercials or awful shows or complete lies and BS on the news, I fear I might cause a global blackout :o

@alexanderpas They should hook that up to a coma patient and see what happens.