Mind Controlled Toy Helicopter

Original Story: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/mind-control-flies-toy-helicopter-autism-epilepsy-cure-160201355.html

I thought it was funny how the other day we were discussing computers and other devices controlled by our minds and I think it was just the night before that I read the above article. You see, I am an avid reader of Yahoo News, which is generally a bunch of crap, however I found this article interesting.

It is about a toy that a man developed that is controlled by a headset-device that reads the brain's electrical activity, giving commands that are programmed into the toy allowing the user's brain to control it. Now, the toy and the headset are completely independent, so it is really the headset that is the big story. It was developed in hopes of understanding and correcting Autism and/or Epilepsy in the brain, however its only use so far has been by third party inventors. In the article it is discussed how people have used it to control a TV and are in hopes of controlling a vehicle with it.

Now, back to the Autism and Epilepsy cure, I think that this would be a wonderful idea. They are both neurological deficiencies, and with this device, or one much more advanced for the use of 'reading' a human brain, scientists can hopefully understand the electrical differences between people with and without these deficiencies.

So we may be closer to those mind controlled computers than we expected in the discussion the other day.