Brain Wave Technology – Future Mass Controller? | The Cool Gadgets

It has been a wonderful scientists’ dream to materialized the brain control wheel-chair to ease those disabled community.

Not until few days ago, exactly on Monday, 29th June 2009, as photos released by Riken Brain Institute in Wako near Tokyo, a Japan research laboratory Riken researcher Mr. Choi Kyuwan, is wearing a cap on a wheelchair, showing how he control the prototype electric powered wheelchair using his brain-wave.

It claimed has been able to perform brain-waves control over the wheel chair movement, without any need for the person sitting on the wheel chair having to move a muscle or voice command.

Toyota’s system developed in a collaboration with researchers in the government-funded research institute Riken and others in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said.

The developed technology called Brain Machine Interface (BMI), is a joint effort between Riken and Toyota Motors.

This breakthrough in technology could be ground-breaking as the use of brain to control the movements could than encompass almost every mechanical or electrical device.

Think about cars, jets for instance. The new signal processing technology for brain machine interface (BMI) to command for smooth left and right turns and the forward motion of the wheelchair.