A company called Emotiv will be releasing a headset that allows games to be played with only the brain as the interface. It will cost around $200, which leads me to believe that this will be little more than a biofeedback device with a USB connection. Until products like these include marketing language that says something like “100% compatible with Bioshock”, I’m not opening my wallet. Still, I hope the company sells enough of them to demonstrate market potential and warrant future R&D investments. And while you’re at it, please create me a brain interface that lets me bang out these blog entries even when my fingers are still thawing out. On the plus side, my current setup lets me give my neck muscles a daily workout. Women love a well-defined neck.
Oh, why not invent a headset then that commands a set of artificial muscles wrapped in strings around the parts of your body that could use them? Everything just seems so easy and natural these days! Isn’t there a single intelligent researcher out there who could turn tis idea into reality?
But these are very exciting times.
We are in danger of getting spoilt.