November 01, 2009
Blink, Blink, You're Dead
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.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at November 1, 2009 08:15 PM