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From: norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: In search of "MindLink"
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.195046.8027@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:50:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.172945.20889@Think.COM>
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sean@think.com (Sean Colbath) writes:

>     > 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.

Conceivably, it could be much more mundane; the band could simply monitor
tension on the forehead muscles rather than detecting alpha waves.  I believe
the product "Relax!" by Synapse many, many years ago used a head band that
monitored tension as a biofeedback device, with which you could "control" a
kaleidoscope display.  I never saw the device myself, I just read about it.

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


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