Japan brings brainwave technology to a head
The ability to control objects simply by thinking about them is the subject of serious research in laboratories around the world with wheelchairs and even cars now being driven by the power of the mind. It’s all very serious science, but in Japan, technologists are demonstrating that mind control can also be a lot of fun. Gemma Haines reports
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- The cat ears are controlled by the wearer’s brain.
- The device dictates how the wearer must feel.
- The ears move in four ways depending on the emotional state of the wearer.
- Reading a book causes the ears to flatten.
- The ears help to stimulate brain activity.
- Real cat-ear movements are very attractive to other cats.
- Human perception of cat ear-movements is well researched.
- The most difficult part of making the ears was getting the movements just right for human attitudes.
- Neuro-control may help patients who are deaf or mute.
- Research in Switzerland in using neuro-control for wheelchair operation has been very successful.
- The Japanese cat ears are not a serious approach to the science.
- People found the cat-ear experience disturbing.
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