{"id":2468,"date":"2009-11-01T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2009-11-01T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:15:34","slug":"blink_blink_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"Blink, Blink, You&#8217;re Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/10\/31\/1428225\/Controlling-Games-and-Apps-Through-Muscle-Sensors\">Slashdot<\/a> points to an article on using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/091029-ttr-muscle-sensing.html\">muscle sensors for controlling video games<\/a>. 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&#8217;m using to type this measures minute muscle movements, so the technology already exists in a basic form.<\/p>\n<p>I eagerly await the day I can play <i>Guitar Hero<\/i> just by fluttering my eyebrows and wiggling my ears.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2468' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-DO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}