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XWave is the future of interfaces – uses your brain to command
If you had read All Touch Tablet for some time now you know I’m saying from time to time that touchscreen technology is not the future of user interfaces, but the brain. The moment when we’ll be really connected to our gadgets is the moment when we will control them via our thoughts, not gestures. XWave is the first brainwave interface for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, an accessory featuring a headphone and an electrode connected to your forehead, that has the purpose of reading your brain waves and then control objects on screen.
For now the XWave is great for games, where you can levitate spheres, change colors based on your relaxation level and things you don’t consider essential, but an SDK (Software Development Kit) is provided for developers to take the legacy further and build new and complex apps to maximize the potential of this innovative gadget. What’s interesting is the fact that you’ll be able to preorder the XWave kit from PLX Devices for just 100 dollars, starting in October.
XWave brainwave interface
Update: And now we even have a video demo of how XWave works
Via Gizmag
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We must be very carefull with that kind of technology! There is a long way still to go until we will be able to use safely and in our advantage technology like that. It is always nice to see there are innovative ideas but these must be dealt properly and seriously.
“Innovative? Not exactly. These were commercially available back in the days of the Amiga – and they worked. They did have the downside of restricting gameplay to half an hour or so if you wanted to avoid severe headaches.