Thought-controlled wheelchair in Japan

[TheHoboUniverse]

@christelle2194 They have. It's called an ATM.

[countuchiha]

Oh man, this is really cool technology and you all are just using it for an excuse to act like tits.

[TheNothinged]

GOT DAMMIT JAPAN YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW ur making the US look bad

[Gregorick]

professor x

[PsychedelicKilljoy]

what if you was thinking about running someone you hate over? would it run them over?

[iwillavengeyou]

STEVEN HAWKING's DREAM!!!

[darkhill5]

now make this into a robot suit yea thats right japan we challenge you

[drumONdrugs23]

just wait until they put this into that full sized gundam.

[TheLunaParty]

Your thought are electromagnetic pulses of information that project out to the cosmos, so be careful what you spend your time thinking about.

[GagnezTV]

Thoughts are things. Thoughts have power!

-G

[ChairmanBlimp]

cue x-men music

[ManabuKempfer]

imagine u use internet based on thoughts only... WHOOPS I SEARCHED PORN..... noooooo mom it was an accident

[SiLeSabes]

qué pero wue



[christelle2194]

ohh wow, next thing u know they'll make a machine that gives us money..

[koberocksaa]

AWW they stole Stephen Hawking's Wheelchair!!

[lvl69engineer]

Next step: perform the inverse operation, using external signals which the brain will perceive as control signals, creating induced stimuli.

WoW in virtual reality, anyone?

[jamese101]

ok, i hate to sound like a nerd but dose anyone know if they are planning on developing the technology for mind controlled games?

[nobtube]

@jamese101 don't worry lol this will definitely happen one day and you'll probably be alive.

[xololomejor]

Me parece increíble cómo funciona este aparato. Lo único que quiero saber es ¿Donde la puedo conseguir? vivo en Colombia

[SolidSharks]

not bad :)

[aeon23]

On step closer to full on cyborgs...I can't wait.

[ShroomSamich]

XAVIER!

[Alexandersig]

DAAAMN, LIKE XMEN AND SHIT DOG

[mumosbombon]

excellent! I hope this will get developed further and made available to as many patients as possible. This could have aplications with the general public too...you could use it to comunicate with different devices and possibly even with people ...a bit like telepathy

[fartnox]

only in japan

[ascortjkk]

i cant use this since i have a dirty mind

[samrees2k9]

lol

[bigdmac]

this is why i love japan

[antihippieninja]

great so in the future i bet that there will be machines that move for us and are brains will be placed inside and we will clone new breads of human using dna from us now then we will adapt and become emcotionless and be robotic exept are brains this is just great!!!!!!!!

[azblatino78]

I am happy for you that obviously you don't have to work with, live with, love, or otherwise know anyone who has to suffer the slow and degrading loss of independence and dignity to a movement-destroying condition or horrific accident. This IS an incredible development for people who can't just get up and WALK away from posts such as this.

[flaviusnaor]

That might be FAKE.

Just program the thing to do something, and pretend you are controling it! Or have someone else controling it remotelly.

I'm sorry, but for the uselessness of a chair controlled by thoughts... sorry, but it is 99% sure its FAKE.

[pumpfever]

It's nothing fake, you need to research about Brain-computer interfaces, this in special is using electro-encephalogram (EEG), there are complete science books about it! and there are a lot of interesting applications for it, for example in the recent videogames conventions they have shown videogames that are controlled only by the brain! It's a new techonology, but nothing fake, just read a little more... It's science! :D

[buttonmasher411]

YAY SCIENCE!!!

[pumpfever]

uselessness??? there are outside a lot of people who can't even move a joystick with their hands! so they are condemned to stay in bed waiting to die, or they need to a person to move their chair, so in this way they gain a lot of independency! and mind control is for more a better control than voice control (the other option), because voice control is really affected by noisy environments, while mind control isn't affected :D

[RacingInTheName]

pretty sure it is useful.

what do u think its for stupid..

maybe for full paraplegics like steve hawkins or watever his name is

[heidihaydon]

@RacingInTheName you mean full quadriplegics :)

[Oddballzshowreturns]

HA-HA-HA-HA your in a wheel chair!! HA-HA-HA-HA Der-der-der-der!!

[AriosThePirate]

awesome.

[jkono29]

It's Professor Xavier!

[Xacur2]

lol

[gelel112]

O yes. Ghost in the shell is here. Thats What people are saying.

[paintdataint]

Oh man id wave my arms in the air while using this screaming DEMON CHAIR DEMON CHAAAAAAAAAIR!!!!

[droleniacoc]

Weelchair, i command you to kill flanders

[PoopypirateE311230]

i could see many accidents happening if someone gets a naughty thought

[zecnobot]

brave new world

[tranxxaction]

they're gonna kill us !

[AnthonyMoreno24]

hahahaha

[bigred2989]

Thay already have the concept out. Ever hear of Gundam? Some have thought controled "bit" weapons that do what the pilot tells them to do via thought.

[xXDominoXx]

this has already been done :/ I've seen it loads of times on the discovery and science channels...

[Onegatif19]

A question: what about paraplegic patient who had massive stroke attack (both anterior cerebral arteries), will he be able to use this technology??

NB: as shown at 0:17 or 0:57 electrodes were exactely at the motor cortex : paracentral lobule which controls legs movement :)

[Onegatif19]

thats remind of House MD S05 E19; a patient who had locked in syndrome, lost also his vertical gaze mov, so to communicate with him they used a computer & he was able to move up & down a cursor = to say yes or no

[lolzsik]

no offense butttt this is fucking stupid i mean scientists can find out how to use our MINDS to controll a WHEELCHAIR but i still have to brush my teeth with my hands we should focus on more common stuff not a wheelchair no offense though

[bigboom193]

yeah man

[atmac0]

really do you not understand the freakin possiblietys. im 13, and i probably know more than you... howerver old you are. think of this, your parilized and have no movements in anypart of your body, maby a finger twich or a head throb, how the hell are you supposed to grab a joystick to control your wheelchair. this is supposed to help the paralized, and also, get off your lazy bum and move your hand to brush your teeth yourself.

[asaw94]

you're really 13, this is youtube you don't have to lie

[livewire242]

If he ever goes on a date, he's going to run her over.

[pwnrzero]

what if someone on the wheelchair [as a joke] thinks about moving forward, but doesnt really Want to

[FyreAssasin]

Like, "Lol there is a cliff, Imagine if I moved foraward"

[pwnrzero]

exactly what i was thinking, it could also be:

the guy in the wheelchair has a swat team have their guns pointed at him.

they tell him, "dont move!"

but as he tries hard not to think about it, he does, and Boom!

[Onegatif19]

didn't u watch all the video?!!

Your answer at 0:49

"& when things go wrong an emergency stop can be performed by ..."

[pwnrzero]

of course i watched all of it,  and even with the emergency stop, there could be a malfunction.

[FallenDeathAssassin]

Ya things can always go wrong with technology, but if u didnt notice, there is a hand controller on the side of the wheelchair, so if anything goes wrong (can't understand command, and the emergency stop isnt working, and if the person can move his hand) u can just move the stick controller, like a normal electronic wheelchair. =D nothing can go wrong. if everything fails.... then jump out of the chair using ur hands. ;P

[jessivehadit]

hahahahahahahahahahaha ......ahhhhh..... hahahahahahahaha. Oh man! Whew!

[jessivehadit]

How do we know that it's not God listening to our thoughts and then controlling these machines?

[Guardsmen46]

You can't be serious, do you seriously think that...

[mobby32]

wow jess you fail

[DarkNoex]

but.. but.. that's bad!!

what would happen if a hot girl across the road? xD

[Prometheus722]

Japanese scientists are developing the means by which they can destroy us while American scientists try figure out how to make you penis bigger.

were all fucked!!!

[justinbars]

lmao

[demonkogure]

chair transforms stands up.

[jessivehadit]

YAY!!!

[Ch3rmy]

clever japs

[shmell21]

skynet.

[cpucpu2]

hehe, and you see in the end a little glimmer of some guy in a greenscreen suit and hes like "oh shit"

[lygoz]

What if they are retarded and paralized and all they can think is to keep spinning?

[MrRealtalk1111]

@lygoz you don't make any sense they can think is to keep spinning what ?

[NoloPasoro01]

cool, i hope they would create a mind controlled racing wheel chair in the future XD

[ladyunleashed30]

Hey! Dats pretty cool! {But can it manuver those pesky corners!?!?}

[elbowfrenzy]

PRETTY SOON THEY'LL ADD A FEATURE THAT CALLS 911 IF YOU THINK AGAINST THE GOV.

it's the new world order you sheep don't you see? damn youtube can be stupid -_-

[808Productionz]

Fucking theory nuts, I find it funny how you call everyone else sheeps, while you gobble up everything told to you like a fat kid on chocolate cake.

[KzrrainzYes]

Don't do drugs kids, or you'll end up like this guy.

[elbowfrenzy]

Can anyone detect sarcasm anymore?

[KzrrainzYes]

Not without an indication.

[elbowfrenzy]

I didn't really think anyone would think I was really that dumb. ;___;

[tsneal101]

woot nice

[notae5]

i think too much shit at one point to ever work this. id be thinking what if i go left

[chucknorris687]

Your better off using you hands and arms if your handicapped in my opinion +plus+ this has been done before and isn't new : (

[bluezam]

but what if you don't have any hands/arms....

[TheTwelfthDoctor]

and how about when you are paralized from the neck down?

[chucknorris687]

UMMM.....not sure. XD--(---(

[TheTwelfthDoctor]

i was also thinking after i wrote that what if you're paralized from the neck up

[Yepimdatguy]

The japanese are too damn smart for their own good lol!

[justaguy12345]

Incredible. This is why Japan is so awesome.

[AZN0RiCeCaKe]

ppl this is for the disabled not everyday lazy ppl like you

[InsideLosAngeles]

And thus the matrix begins, where machines will harvest humans into batteries.

[oldhagwoman1]

This would of been good for reese the superman who fell off his horse during a jumb.

[jasonxgg]

can the world be anymone lazy

[XxSp0rkxX]

Hey bub...

This is not for the average person. This is for quadro and para-riplegics. For those who can't even talk and have to blink to even communicate.

This Technology gives those who would otherwise not have the ability to be independent. Until that has been taken away from you its hard to grasp what its really like.

[gundamdude]

this is the shit

[watchingher86]

Love it <3

[andrefantastisk]

Where is the car that drives it self?? I'm have been waiting so long for it! Imagine:

"Car, take me to work" and then you fall a sleep and the car takes you to work, or on saturday night. "car, come an pick me up and drive me home" *hick*

[PatchA4]

wont happen, not for a very very very long time

[telephonepole38]

unless you consider within 20 years a very very long time you're wrong. theres already cars that drive themselves on the highway. not released for public use but they are in R&D.

[miksuh]

Actually that's not true. It's not nesessarily so long time. On this spring there was demostration of cars whitout drivers here in Finland. People were able to go in, sit down and let the car drive around the city streets. The problem is not technology anymore, even if it is not ready for everyday use yet. The real problem is those cars which are driven by humans. Human drivers can do all kinds of crazy and stupid moves when driving.

[ShamblerDK]

<3 Toyota!

I own a Toyota Carina E from '92, and the only negative thing people says about that car is that you never get to see your local car mechanic :P-

[heeheechamona]

Holy shit, the controlling of the robot looked hella sick. That's a huge deal, for things like deep-sea and space exploration especially.

[larsenmark277]

WOW Nice 5*5 and sup to you :D