Wow, is this a taste of the future, or what? Check out MindWalker — an exoskeleton that will soon enable paralysed and locked-in people to walk using only their mind. Ah, who are we kidding — we're ALL going to eventually want this for ourselves!
The groundbreaking device, which is currently under review by the European Commission, consists of three main elements: The exoskeleton itself, a virtual-reality user interface, and the mind-reading component. It was developed by a consortium of several major universities and companies.
Users control the MindWalker using an EEG cap that measures electrical activity at various points across the scalp. There
are a number of different ways to control the exoskeleton in this way,
but the best model involves wearing a pair of glasses with flickering
diodes attached to each lens.
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