Toyota Reveals Mind-Controlled Wheelchair
New discoveries are announced almost regularly and some of them are important enough to get a passing comment or two out of us. Why only a passing comment, you ask? It’s because there are only a few of them that will have a real, practical effect on us. And when it comes to practical discoveries, none of them are felt as strongly as the ones for the disabled.
Car manufacturer Toyota, in collaboration with Japanese researchers, have come up with a mind-reading wheelchair. While it won’t tell the user’s fortune, it is capable of moving to the direction that its occupant is thinking. Here’s how it works:
The system analyzes brain wave data using signal-processing technology and delivers neuro-feedback to the driver. In layman’s terms, a device, usually a cap wired with sensors, detects a person’s brain waves. That information is analyzed by a computer and applied to the device in question.
A user can head right, left and forward. Stopping is done by puffing up a cheek. Plans are already being made to put this product out to the market.
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