Kotaku is reporting from GDC08 on a swanky "psychic controller" from Emotiv that will pop up on shelves in "select" retail shops sometime this year for the pretty price of $300. According to the company's Tan Le:
"The wireless device slips onto a gamers head, its 14 or so slender metal branches sliding through hair to rest against the scalp. The metal arms, which are coated with a proprietary material, detect the electrical current conducted by the brain and transmits the data to an in-board chip that deciphers the information and translates it into data that can be used by the program to control games."Neat! We are now officially in science fiction territory -- something that is quite scary for my feeble little brain that grew up in the 80's and 90's. Maybe I've just been watching too many Terminator and Matrix movies.
Kotaku's Brian Crecente got some hands-on (er...hands-off?) time with it at GDC, and posted his thoughts this morning along with a video. Now people can look even sillier when they play games!
(Image courtesy of Kotaku, natch.)
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