Emotive reveal the details of its mind-reading gaming helmet

American company, Emotiv, has announced a new piece of hardware, called the Epoc. A gaming helmet that translates your thoughts into actions on the screen in front of you.

Basically you’re looking at the Wii of 2008. It’s a groundbreaking invention, which will no doubt whip us all into an excited frenzy. The Epoc involves EEG (electroencephalogram). This is what you see happening in movies when they stick those round things on the guy’s head and it measures the electrical activity in his brain. Trippy, right ?

Well, when it comes down to it, Emotiv think they’ve managed to work out which pretty pattern makes you move your arm and which one makes you move your leg. Using this knowledge they’ve come up with this nifty invention for video games.

Some people are saying yes, we love it but why video games ? And we say it’s because it’d just be downright dangerous in any pair of hands that actually leaves the house more than once every six months.

You know those annoying gamers who take things a step too far ? The ones who say it’s not talking, it’s interfacing ? Yeah, they’re about to get a whole lot worse. . .

Being honest, we love the idea, but we’re just not looking forward to the people it’s going to turn us into.