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Japanese wheelchair steered using brain waves

Seems a lot of scientists are working on devices that allow the brain to talk directly to a piece of gear. Now, Toyota has developed a wheelchair moved via brain waves.

 

Toyota says its system is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves. The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analyzed in a computer program.


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Rob


Published Monday, June 29, 2009 2:16 PM by gerthro
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I lived all my life in and around the Philadelphia area. Went to Temple University, taught television production at Plymouth Whitemarsh high school. In the meantime, I've had lots of jobs in television and multimedia. I left my position as the managing editor of MensHealth.com to come to the Reeve Foundation as the manager of online communications in 2007.
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