Brain Controlled Pinball Becomes Reality

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Flour

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While I don't really see a place for this in games, they are probably the best place to start testing these brainwave controls.

But I'd prefer it if they developed a way to control a TV remote with your brain first.
 

lwm3398

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That's all well and good, how long before mind controlled guided nuclear missiles, dammit!

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But otherwise yeah, I think it's just gonna make humanity lazier than it already is.
Because playing pinball was such a physical activity before.
 

Jared

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Certainly putting an inventive twist on and old principle!

This could certainly be fun! =D
 

AceDiamond

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Now all we need is pinball that can be played by a sense of smell only and "Pinball Wizard" will have become a reality.
 

SnootyEnglishman

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Quite interesting good sirs of berlin. however i doth protest the idea of using one's cortex for the simple matter of controlling a sphere to hit other assorted shapes.
 

theultimateend

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I'm hoping they advance this sort of technology to a point where you can learn complex motor functions without actually requiring the normal time involvement. Be nice to learn certain things that I just don't have the time to otherwise learn.

Course unfortunately business would ruin this as it often does scientific advancements.

Basically everything negative about genetic engineering has been because of businesses and their ignorant leadership. Sounds elitist but when you give an idiot with money power that should be limited to folks who actual understand the power then it gets worrysome.

If anyone feels the third paragraph is hypocritical in context of the first keep in mind theoretically in the first you WOULD have the knowledge to understand the power after the fact.

30 Bucks says the US military is going to buy the technology so they can build kill bots that are controlled by soldiers far away from the field to further streamline intercontinental murder.
 

Gjarble

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I think, eventually, this kind of tech and motion control could be used in concert. The brain interface would not be used to replace a person's functioning limbs, but for things impossible outside the world of the game, such as magic... sorta like what Rex Dark was getting at. Given that, as well as the possibilities this brings to disabled gamers, I give this advancement two thumbs up.

Also, for everyone afraid of this being used for mind control, this kind of system only has the ability to detect input FROM the brain. Someone would have to design a system that could output signals TO the brain, AND get people to buy it. This means the feature would either have to be added in secret and covered up, or have a good advertising campaign with an insane amount of positive spin towards the capabilities such a feature (combined with consumer stupidity/unawareness).
 

matrix3509

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Yeah, cause fuck all those paralyzed people. They got no business playing videogames. They are worse than those goddamned casual gamers. God, next videogames will actually be accepted as a valid form of entertainment.

Will the stupid people kill themselves please? Kthxbye.
 

Scrythe

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Yeah, but could you tilt the machine with your mind?

You know, decades from now, when we're all gaming with Tron-like technology, I'm still going to say that good 'ole pinball is one of the greatest games ever conceived.
 

TheDoctor455

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Assassin Xaero said:
Being the paranoid person I am about the whole brain control, AI, robots thing... this seems like a bad idea...
Yeah...
All hail our pinball overlords.
 

Android2137

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I don't know. The thought of machines reading my mind is a little unnerving to me. Not to mention that it might make things too easy. I suck at fighting games because I'm lousy at doing the combos correctly. But if I don't even need to struggle over it anymore, I'd lose interest.
 

Lim3

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Hmmm. I can't wait till armies wage war via mech robots controlled from afar via our brains.

Then it will be us gamers who will be the heroes, as we have spent years honing our MewTwo abilities.
 

A.A.K

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you do know that eventually we'll be playing Halo XII with our minds? funky....