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NY Post Video: Star Wars Force Trainer in action
Remember the Star Wars Force Trainer from New York's Toy Fair — the toy that lets you lift a ball using only your mind? Our friends across the street at The New York Post got hold of one, and it looks like it really works. After mounting the brain-machine interface on his head (in a rare example of design competence, it actually doesn't look 100% dorky), reporter Don Kaplan managed to lift a ball about a foot and a half. Well, more accurately, he managed to tell the powered tabletop device that he wanted the ball to go up, and the device pushed it up. Still cool.
The trainer, from Uncle Milton Toys, drops July 23 for $120. We have got to get us one of these.
Via SCI FI Wire
By noizzz at 6:20 AM ON 07/01/09
BRAKE through, really?
By Giggity at 11:44 AM ON 07/01/09
It will be cool to tear that thing apart and see what it really outputs to the system.
If it just does an On/Off whenever any brain activity happens...then lame.
But if it really does take concentration and specific brainwaves, then I wanna experiment with it.
By Traveler at 12:52 PM ON 07/01/09
Forbiden Planet! The intelegence testing device.
By SpelngNatsie at 5:08 PM ON 07/02/09
Thank god noizzz, I was hoping I wasn't the only one who noticed. An english degree might not get a decent job anymore, but it certainly can be an awesome way to get irritated and pissed off at the functional illiterates with journalism degrees.
By lkf at 8:42 PM ON 08/27/09
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