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Thought-controlled wheelchair in Japan

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Researchers at Toyota and Japan's Riken have developed a brain-control system for a wheelchair. The system analyzes thought patterns and translates them into wheelchair movement in a fraction of a second. More videos at www.networkworld.tv

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  • 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

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

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

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

  • professor x

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

  • STEVEN HAWKING's DREAM!!!

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

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

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

  • Thoughts are things. Thoughts have power!

    -G

  • cue x-men music

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