Wheelchair steered using brain waves developed by Toyota

[Coventina]

Source: Daily Mail

A wheelchair that can be steered by brainwaves alone has been developed by Japanese car manufacturer Toyota.

The company said it is among the fastest systems in the world for analysing brain signals.

Current systems require several seconds to read brain waves, but the new technology requires only 125 milliseconds.

The system works via a cap worn on the wheelchair user's head.

The cap, which can read brain signals, relays them to a electroencephalograph scanner (EEG), which analyses the readings on a computer in the chair.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196247/Wheelchair-steered-using-brain-waves-developed-Toyota.html

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Fantastic!

[imdjh]

1. What a feeling! Toyota!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. what a boon for people who cannot move their arms and legs

This means greater freedom of movement for them! Kudos to Toyota!

On another note--GM just severed a 25-year joint venture with Toyota.

[LeftHander]

3. But does it know the "other right"....?

I would crash for sure in this contraption.

[Rob H.]

4. Good news! Their headline writing needs work, though

Wheelchair developed by Toyota steered using brain waves makes more sense. As written, it makes it sound almost as if Toyota developed the brain waves.

</word nerdism>

[Wilms]

6. I asked a friend if journalistic standards have tanked or if I was noticing more as I get older.

He said it was both. :(

[LeftishBrit]

7. Maybe you just didn't encounter British tabloids so much before?

The Daily Mail's standards have stunk for 100 years!

But the story does sound like very good news, if reported accurately.

[No Elephants]

14. Toyota develops wheelchair steered by brain waves.

Eliminates passive voice, which is never desirable, but especially in headlines and is less wordy.

And you thought you were a word nerd! :toast:

[Rob H.]

21. You're right--that's MUCH better than either of them

I bow before your superior word nerdiness! :yourock: :silly:

[DBoon]

19. I thought, damn Toyota is good

they invented brain waves!

That's even better than the Prius

[JonQ]

5. Awesome!

I'm kind of a nerd so the technology really interests me.

[EndersDame]

8. Damn UnAmerican quadropaleigics !

I think that the creative foresight and ingenuity of cutting edge innovations like this shows why imports sadly are better these days. American companies are stuck in the past

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Will there be a version for Republicans?

[tocqueville]

10. don't expect miracles nt

[KamaAina]

12. It wouldn't go very far

it runs on brain waves, remember? :P

[DBoon]

20. it will only turn right

hence always going in circles and never actually getting anywhere

[qb]

11. What happens if you have a brain fart while operating the thing?

:shrug:

[KamaAina]

13. Could the system also be used, say, to operate a computer?

using a series of pull-down menus, etc. plus maybe a speech-to-text interface to replace typing?

I'm in the field, you know; a number of my dear friends have limited mobility and could surely benefit from this! :thumbsup:

[No Elephants]

15. Great news for those who are immobile, but also a little scary. Will mind police be far behind?

[Vidar]

16. Bravo Toyota!

[Odin2005]

17. This was posted yesterday. I have a friend who would love this.

She uses an electric wheelchair and everyone gives her bad time about her wheelchair-driving abilities because she has a tendency of running over people's feet. I told her she should get this for that reason, LOL! :D

[Gogi]

24. I tell people that they are able to get out of the way...

and don't crowd me.

[damntexdem]

18. Watch out if Limbauth, Bachman, or Savage ever need one.

They won't have anything to steer with. ;-)

[Devil_Fish]

22. when will they put this tec in a car?

wheel chairs are so yesterday.

[Nihil]

23. Hopefully not until they start requiring an IQ test for drivers ...!

:wow: