'Mind Gaming' Could Enter Market This Year

An anonymous reader writes "In an adapted version of the Harry Potter video game, players lift boulders and throw lightning bolts using only their minds. Just as physical movement changed the interface of gaming with Nintendo's Wii, the power of the mind may be the next big thing in video games. And it may come soon. Emotiv, a company based in San Francisco, says its mind-control headsets will be on shelves later this year, along with a host of novel "biofeedback" games developed by its partners. Several other companies — including EmSense in Monterey, California; NeuroSky in San Jose, California; and Hitachi in Tokyo — are also developing technology to detect players brainwaves and use them in next-gen video games."

In Soviet Russia..

[TeknoHog]

"mind-control headsets" do exatcly what the name implies.

Question:

[theaceoffire]

Does the average kid gamer have enough brain power to set off the sensor?
I mean, how many madden players are there who buy the same game 49 times?

Mind Games?

[Floydius]

This isn't good... girls will start beating us at video games on a regular basis.

Remember the ST:TNG episode...

[Tetrad_of_doom]

The one where everybody on the Enterprise became addicted to that game that came with a headset and you controlled with your mind? Everybody became addicted to the thing and went all nutzo. Then Wil Wheaton saved the day by making out with Ashley Judd.

I would totally get this if I got to make out with a hot chick in a starfleet uniform.

Just keep them away from me.

[ColdWetDog]

They make this interface work in conjunction with other body movement

I just hope to hell that nobody ever interfaces one of these to a cell phone. The bluetooth headset zombies are quite bad enough, thank you.

Mind Games Olympics

[Doc Ruby]

I already spent years in brutal mind games competitions, while dating girls. I retired with the gold medal when I married my wife.

I thought the entire appeal of online porn is that it's "victory" without the mind games, though its ultimate dissatisfaction is because it's really just a single-player mind game anyway.

Re:The Power Glove seemed cool too

[Naughty Bob]

Agreed, screw the powerglove, roll on Coneheads/Demolition Man style mind-fuckery.

Slashdotters may actually find themselves in the forefront of a sexual revolution, imagine-

The hot chick from the flat above asking if you can come round and fix her BSOD'd Love Helm (tm).
Torrents of the outputs from said Helms floating around on The Pirate Bay.
Spurned ex-boyfriends of Hollywood starlets leaking recordings of the signals, rather than plain old homebrew porno.

Oh, the possibilities. Gotta go - ah - lie down...

Re:The Power Glove seemed cool too

[russotto]

Im so sick of this masturbation fantasy all geeks seem to share. Its been around for at least the 80s and it turns out that people, except perhaps Japanese teens, do not want to fuck machines.

That is because no one has made a machine with the look and feel of Natalie PortmanSummer Glau yet.

Re:Lawsuits

[Columcille]

How are these mind control games different than other games? We already know that all games control the minds of kids.