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Brain Power: Toyota develops thought-controlled wheelchair

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Toyota Brain Machine Interface Wheelchair – Click above for high-res image gallery

You shouldn’t extremity Professor X-style telekinetic powers to move a wheelchair using only your mind, at least not according to Toyota. The World’s Largest Automaker is busily developing its Brain Machine Interface, which uses thought-control and brain wave analysis technologies in some attempt the make life better for elderly or handicapped people.

A series of electrodes are attached to the scalp and measure the brain activities associated with certain thoughts. The BMI then displays those signals on an attached screen and can make a prescribed of instructions that may exist useful in altogether kinds of scenarios, including to instigate an electric wheelchair.

According to Toyota, the partnership’s BMI technology has advanced to the proposition where it’s practically instantaneous (the delay is just 125 milliseconds), is 95-percent severe and will adapt itself to any user’s thought patterns. Next logical question: How long until our cars come sans pedals and steering wheels? Thanks for the tip, FaLeX!

Gallery: Toyota BMI Wheelchair

[Source: Dawn.com | Photo by YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty]

Source: www.autoblog.com