Emotiv to sell world’s first brain-controller for $299
- February 20th, 2008
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We talked about the Emotiv last year during GDC and came away fairly impressed. Basically you control games with your “brain” using thoughts, expressions, and emotions to move on-screen figures.
This is the final official headset — we saw a prototype last year — and it will cost about $299 at Emotiv.com. You can use the included software to connect directly to almost any game using the Emotiv EmoKey. I’m going to call this a very cool toy right now, but clearly a technology to watch.
Emotiv Unveils World’s First Brain-Controlled Video Gaming Headset [BusinessWire]
Open English (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Wow very, very cool. Have you tried it? I so want to get one of those.
John Biggs (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Blake tried it last year. Worked really well.
dwalk51 (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Looks really cool. Sadly, I don’t game on my computer, and that $300 is being saved up for iPhone 2.
Mark (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Nice. I remember seeing this last year (Along with a couple other types of ‘brain-control’ controllers) and was really excited about it then, and that much more excited about it now. Can’t wait to see demonstrations, etc that use this.
Phil (Who am I?)
4 months ago
My ten year old thinks it’s really cool. She wants to put it on, and use it to control me.