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Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand.

Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.

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This is so freakin' cool! Think of the applications beyond entertainment, prosthetics being the obvious example.

Video of the boy playing.

Yay for cyborgs.

Edited for a better title.

[ January 23, 2007, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: Juxtapose ]
 

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Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
*bump*

really, it's cool.
 

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Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
 
Yes, very cool.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

 

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Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
 
I read about this a few weeks ago. I know this sounds terrible, but I'm almost jealous of this guy.
 

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