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From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: In search of "MindLink"
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.080126.673@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 08:01:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.172945.20889@Think.COM>
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In article <1991Jun17.172945.20889@Think.COM> sean@think.com (Sean Colbath) writes:
>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)?

I seem to remember something like this in the APRIL (yes, **APRIL**) issue of
Atari ST User here in the UK a few years ago; think about it...
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