June 10, 2013
Via Macrina Cooper-White of the Huffington Post comes an amazing — and, arguably, amazingly creepy — new device:
Imagine being able to control a flying robot with your mind.
Sounds like a flight of fancy, but researchers at the University of Minnesota have fashioned an electrode-studded cap that records brain waves and uses them to control a “quadcopter” via wi-fi.
Here’s video of the potentially terrifying robot in action: