Mattel ist der Durchbruch gelungen. Ein Spielzeug für Kinder ab 8 Jahren, das in der Lage ist, Gedanken zu lesen und Objekte dort hin zu transportieren, wo das Kind sie haben will, ohne dass es einen Finger rührt.
New technology that gives people the ability to move objects with their minds will soon be available at North American toy stores — and unlike those goofy X-ray specs from the 1960s, it will work.
Mattel Inc. has created a game that can read a child’s mind and use thoughts to manoeuvre a small foam ball through a table-top obstacle course.
Called the Mind Flex, the game uses technology that reads the electrical impulses — called bio-feedback — that happen within a brain while a person is thinking.
A device that looks like a pair of headphones sits on the child’s head and tracks brain activity. Within the obstacle course are small fans that are activated when a child thinks. The more brain activity a child produces, the faster the fans blow.
The game’s goal is to have the child „think“ the little foam ball through the obstacle course.
The toy, to be officially revealed this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, will be in stores later this year and will be targeted at children ages eight and older. It will retail for $80 US. Canadian pricing has not been released.
While the technology may sound like it came straight from Star Trek, researchers have long been working on ways to use brain activity to direct machines.
