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In what we can only imagine is an effort to make somebody (please, anybody!) care about the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, visitors to the event will be able to participate in a long-distance, mind-control light show that will take place at Niagara Falls. Don’t shrug those shoulders; it’s more interesting than watching Olympic curling.
According to Gizmodo, the exhibit dubbed “The Bright Ideas” uses a headset that measures your noggin’s electrical output. The device reacts to the brain’s alpha waves, which are associated with relaxing, and beta waves, which are associated with concentrating. It then shoots those signals via the Internet to the lights at the falls. But here’s the catch with Toronto-based InteraXon’s project: you’re not actually “controlling” the lights. It’s all fairly arbitrary because there’s no real way to make the display turn a certain color or shine brighter on command. That’s right. No matter how hard you think, “Turn red, turn red, turn red,” the lights may turn yellow, or do nothing for that matter. Regardless, pretending to have telekinetic powers must be more exciting than actually attending a Winter Olympic event. [From: Gizmodo, via: Huffington Post]
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