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Finger fatigue after hours of video gaming may become a thing of the past, as firms unveil headsets that measures users’ brainwaves and allow them to interact with apps installed in computers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new technology is part of a wider exhibition of wearable computing, <\/strong>the next great frontier in consumer electronics, on display at Taipei’s Computex trade fair.<\/p>\n

At the show yesterday US chip company NeuroSky promoted its new product MindWave Mobile<\/strong> — a brain-computer interface which allows headset-wearing users to interact with apps in computers and other devices without lifting a finger.<\/p>\n

Wearing a MindWave headset, a member of staff demonstrated how to pilot a toy helicopter using just his thoughts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chips inside the headset measure brainwave signals and transfer data via Bluetooth to wirelessly communicate with users’ computers or mobile devices, explained Giant Lin, a representative of NeuroSky’s Taiwan branch.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing. It can detect what you think. Maybe you can use your mindwaves to control a car. That’s technology,” said Alpha Alexander Atega, a visitor at the fair, after trying a headset.<\/p>\n

Wow! Amazing! <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Silicon Valley-based company has been targeting its technology at brain training games and educational apps.<\/p>\n

Mindwave technology has already been taken up by several schools in Malaysia and Singapore in programs designed to help students improve their concentration, said Lin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We believe that such technologies have huge potential as lots of families, especially in Chinese communities, pay heed to education,” he said.<\/p>\n

The firm is now looking for new partners to develop other applications which could use the chips, said Lin.<\/p>\n

More than 1,700 exhibitors are displaying their latest products at 5,000 booths in Computex Taipei, drawing an estimated 130,000 visitors, including 36,000 visitors from abroad, the organizers said.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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