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The Neural Impulse Activator lets you control the game...with your face photo

The Wiimote motion thing is SO 2007. You people need to get up to speed with the latest technology. OCZ has a new product called the Neural Impulse Activator that could take gaming a step further and eliminate that nasty movement issue altogether. The headband can sense electrical impulses thanks to a trio of sensors along the front. What does that mean to a gamer? Simply put, if wearing the headband you can control a character in-game with facial movements and specific thought patterns. Amazing? I think so.

Of course, not everyone wants to sit around at home looking like Olivia Newton-John. It seems the applications of the Neural Impulse Activator may be most powerful in areas other than games, most obviously in the cases of people afflicted with limb-paralysing diseases. However, it can be used for games, as proved by technical development VP Dr. Michael Schuette by using the device with Unreal Tournament III.

The Neural Impulse Activator should see the light of day by mid-year, and will set you back $300-$400. You Tube videos of gamers in facial spasm can't come soon enough. 

[Via Shacknews


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EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:50
EternalDeathSlayer
that pic is hilarious.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:59
Cheeburga
How does this work with vegetables?
Rockvillian's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:02
Rockvillian
In the article I read that thinking of expletives caused his character in UT3 to jump...

So 10 years from now, when I walk by some kids playin hopscotch, all I'll hear is FUCK DAMN SHIT ASS?

Pavlov must be proud. Or spinning in his grave? I can't decide.
Zenith's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:03
Zenith
do we get a refund if it makes us go out and kill, or melts our frontal lobes into jelly etc?
Elrando's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:04
Elrando
@Rockvillian
"So 10 years from now, when I walk by some kids playin hopscotch, all I'll hear is FUCK DAMN SHIT ASS?"

Would that really suprise you, even today?
Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:08
Rainbowblack
I sense a 4-koma joke in there somewhere
Rockvillian's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:09
Rockvillian
@elrando

....no.... but it'll be WAY worse!
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:24
Orionsaint
This is the closest i'll get to controlling women

Knicker Picker
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:32
Orionsaint

Come closer! closer! obey me!
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:44
MrSadistic
This product is too damn easy to make a sexual joke about.
psycho terror2's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 19:03
psycho terror2
OCZ can stay the fuck out of my head.
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 19:10
bleep
haha this IS awesome!
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 19:44
Orionsaint
That guy closet to us looks like Everybody loves Raymond
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 19:45
mix
I am already pre-ordering Extreme Bukakke-Take One For The Team edition, I can hardly wait!
Eschatos's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 19:47
Eschatos
When I can control a game with my cock, then I'll be interested.
SanityMask's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 20:54
SanityMask
I've seen the future, Will Smith's face in 'I am legend' is actually inputing the konami code using this device...thing.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 23:58
Necros
I can't wait for all these technologies to come together with motion sensing and just have me walking around the house in a video game.
Zersturer's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 01:07
Zersturer
Do we have to be bald like those old dudes to use it?
I see it now... this is how the skinheads will take over, controlling their android armies with NEURAL IMPULSE ACTIVATORS!!! OMGXORS
Zelnor's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 05:54
Zelnor
No thanks. Anything that can get stuff out of my brain will possibly sooner or later be able to get stuff into my brain. Okay, that's paranoid and I know it, but has anyone of you played Dreamfall: The Longest Journey ?

Maybe at the moment, but not in ten years.
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 07:54
Orionsaint
'In a world where gaming has become part of modern culture and our fates are decided by our online connection. There lives gamer who won't bow down to anyone.' "I am the WARLOCK!" 'Corey Woods thought his gaming days were over. But now a married man with 3 kids, must log online and decided the fate of every gamers on earth! WIZARDS 2: Rise of Warlock. Rated PG-13
BS3 Owner's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 08:27
BS3 Owner
Nintendo's Bobbing for Apples teh Game!
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