Teen Uses Brain To Play Videogame
In what must be a world first, a teenage boy has actually used his brain to play a video game. I know, I know. But calm down, he wasn’t doing anything crazy like having an original thought or finishing his homework, it was a scientist thing. Like, a plug-wires-into-your-head scientist thing. Sign me up!
Actually, the wires were a grid placed invasively onto the brain surface (which sounds so much less nightmarish, no?) of a 14yo epileptic boy with the intention of finding the brain area responsible for his seizures – and perhaps removing the troublesome gray matter. But researchers at Washington University in St. Louis had another idea and used their mojo to rig the boy up to a (presumably heavily modded) Atari 2600. Then he played Space Invaders by merely thinking about moving his tongue and hand. He cleared level one “almost instantaneously,” and flew through two more challenging levels playing with, quite literally, his own imagination. What teenage boy with his brain exposed like a half-peeled orange wouldn’t want to take some time out to play the, um, latest video game?
I’m sure his parents were thrilled.
Fellow neurodorks can read the whole shebang here.
tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games on 12 October 2006
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Other stuff like this: atari 2600, mind control, space invaders
there is no WAY someone used their brain to play video games. that’s like using physical energy to play sports.
obviously, the report was a hoax.
everyone knows video games are shallow mind-rot.
all that pooshwash about fine motor-skill enhancement, hand eye coordination practice, peripheral vision developement, reflex training, and problem solving using a limited amount of tools is totally make-believe, pretend, fake, fantasy, false, phony, and furthermore, not real.
Nah, that’s not a 2600. That’s a XP machine running what looks like a port of the original arcade version.