Mind-powered Wheelchair

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on June 29, 2009 1:45 PM | | Comments (1) |

Will this technology ever be applied to cars? That would be amazing and scary.


Toyota develops wheelchair that can be steered using brain waves

(Daily Mail) Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has developed a way to steer wheelchairs using brain waves alone.

The company says that the new technology enables users to move the chair without needing to move a muscle.

Toyota, which announced the development today, said that it is among the fastest systems in the world for analysing brain signals.

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By Jim on June 29, 2009 9:06 PM

I object to the use of the word "magical" in the story about a wheel chair controlled by the mind, when it's just an advanced wheelchair? There is nothing magical about it and the use of the word "magical" in legitimate journalism helps propagate people’s beliefs in mysticisms rather than rational grounded science.

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