Unless you happen to live in the UK and are employed as either a night watchman or long-haul trucker, you probably missed my late-night appearance on BBC Radio’s Pods and Blogs — “an hour of radio dedicated to covering the news as it’s seen by bloggers, podcasters and the citizen media” — discussing new technology that aims to translate the power of your mind into input for, get this … video games!
NeuroSky is the company that everyone was talking about, but there’s a handful of other groups looking to produce similar products. Is there a market for this stuff? Is this what designers really want? Will the success of the Wii and its unique input mechanism encourage a multiplicity of products like this? Check out the show notes. I’m trying to track down the audio, since the Beeb’s website doesn’t seem to archive past shows. Got it! (Thanks, Chris). Embedded below for your edification.
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