Cebit 2008: OCZ Pushes Mind-Controlled Game Technology March 6, 2008

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We have come across the promise of mind-controlled game systems before, like the one from Emotiv, but now PC component and peripheral outfit, OCZ Technology Group, is getting in on the act.

The company has unveiled its Neural Impulse Actuator (NIA) brain-computer interface game controller – take a deep breath – which it claims will allow people to play games without a keyboard and ‘minimal’ use of a mouse. The NIA is just gone into mass production and comprises a small metal chassis with USB 2.0 interface, streamlined headband with carbon interface sensors and some ‘user-friendly’ software.

The NIA converts EEG (electroencephalograph) signals into certain keystrokes, allowing it to be used with lots of different types of applications. That said, it’s being pitched at gamers.

Alex Mei, Executive Vice President and CMO of the OCZ Technology Group, claimed:

“The Neural Impulse Actuator (NIA) radically changes the ways that gamers can interact and control elements within games.”

Personally, I’ll believe it when I see it and it actually works because my home is already littered with the useless remains of the next BIG THINGS in gaming technology.-Martin Lynch

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