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Researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer. (physorg.com)
3 points by vaksel on March 7, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This seems like a nice aggregation of existing(?) technologies, but there's no major breakthrough here. The mind-reading thing could be an input source to just about anything. Now, we're left with a DARPA-esque autonomous vehicle that happens to have a human riding it.

What I don't know is the percentage of quads who don't have sufficient control of some part of their bodies (hand, head for halo control, etc.) to maneuver a chair in traditional ways. So, the market could be smaller than one would initially expect.




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