I’m still percolating this Washington Post article about telekinetic toys (free reg) and the possible future applications.
You slip the wireless headset on. It looks like something a telemarketer would wear, except the earpieces are actually sensors, and what looks like a microphone is a brain wave detector. You place its tip against your forehead, above your left eyebrow.
A few feet away is a ping-pong ball in a clear tube called the Force Trainer. The idea is to use your thoughts alone, as recognized by the wand on your forehead, to lift the ball. Your brain’s electrical activity is translated into a signal understood by a little computer that controls a fan that blows the ball up the tube. Levitates it. As if by magic. It’s mind over matter.
All you have to do is concentrate. On anything, it doesn’t matter. The harder you concentrate, the higher the ball goes.
First instinct is “I want one of these for Christmas!!!”
More thoughts to follow after I have some time to ponder the imponderables.