Nov 012009
Slashdot points to an article on using muscle sensors for controlling video games. The article focuses mostly on possible applications of the technology for able-bodied gamers, but this could also be a tide-me-over advance for people with disabilities while we wait for fully functional neural interfaces. Most of us can twitch at least a few muscles. In fact, the switch I’m using to type this measures minute muscle movements, so the technology already exists in a basic form.
I eagerly await the day I can play Guitar Hero just by fluttering my eyebrows and wiggling my ears.
