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From: sean@think.com (Sean Colbath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: In search of "MindLink"
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Date: 17 Jun 91 17:29:45 GMT
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Around 1984, a friend of mine forwarded me a clip he had seen in Popular
Science regarding a new Atari product called "MindLink" that purported to
allow you to control your computer with your mind (read: play video games):

     > Quoted from the September issue of Popular Science, an excerpt
     >     from an article about the latest Consumer Electronic Show
     >     in Chicago:
     > 
     >         '...Atari's "Mindlink" is a band that goes around your head
     >         and connects with the company's new 7800 video game.  Result:
     >         no joy stick.  Just THINK about where your player should be
     >         on the screen, and it goes there (eventually).  It takes
     >         practice...'

Presumably this is just a piece of hardware that monitors alpha-waves and
you have to train to use it via biofeedback.  Does anyone out there know if
this product ever really made it to market?  Does anyone out there *HAVE*
one of these (that they'd be willing to sell)?

-- 
Sean Colbath
sean@think.com					...harvard!think!sean
"...and now for something completely different..."