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The notoriously vague EEG patterns are being used in an experiment to control a robot’s movement, promising wheelchair driving in the future.

This can of course be extrapolated and you can imagine easily other vehicles (cars) being controlled by this. Then you can also easily create a system that notices if people are drowsy or sleeping and give a waring signal.

How about controlling your 1200’s???

Anyway, until now it is all very limited, see the New Scientist article about it.

Surrounding city centres and likely terrorist targets with “soft walls” will make it impossible for hijacked planes to get anywhere near them. So say the inventors of an avionics system that creates no-fly zones that pilots cannot breach.

Since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, anti-aircraft missile batteries have been installed to protect buildings in Washington DC and other US cities.

Read more about an alternative way to stop planes entering certain zones.

Scary thing about it is what to do if a pilot needs to make a certain move to be able to make a safe emergency-landing… That move might become impossible with such a system.

Nice one mate:

MP3’s are boring. You can’t touch them. You can’t feel them. There’s no sleeve. There’s no art work. You can’t show them to your friends. You can’t find one’s you’ve been after for years in second hand shops. You can’t rush to the door when the post man brings a couple of new ones.

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I always claim that people these days underestimate the ower of physical goods. You can disagree of course, but remeber that your next birthday present will be a URL instead of a physical gift.