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UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Grieve - 06-30-2009
I wish they'd had cool stuff like this when I was a kid...
(I started enthusiastically describing this to my wife...after a minute or so she interrupted with "I stopped listening at 'Star Wars'"...)
No lightsabers yet, but this new toy allows you to use the Force, Luke
June 30, 2009
OK, admit it. Ever since you first saw Star Wars, you've practiced moving stuff with your mind, right?
Well, the New York Post says there's a new toy that will let you do that very thing.
Here's how the newspaper describes the new Star Wars-branded "Force Trainer."
A new toy that harnesses the same technology doctors use to monitor brain waves will arrive in stores in August. The toy moves when it senses a change in the user's brain-wave patterns.
"It's pretty cutting-edge," says, Frank Adler, executive vice president of Uncle Milton, the toy company that manufactures the Star Wars-branded Force Trainer. "It certainly appears to be where things are headed." ...
Scientists call the technology BCI, or Brain Computer Interface, and more sensitive, medical-grade versions are used to help amputees move artificial limbs and victims of paralysis communicate using a computer and software that reacts thought.
Acquiring the powers of the Force won't be cheap: The Force Trainer is expected to sell for about $120. Here's a video of the toy in action.
Now if they could only come up with a device that lets you control the weak-minded ...
— SCI FI Wire StaffÂ
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Dustie - 06-30-2009
You should totally get one of these so I can play with it at lunch.
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Vllad - 07-01-2009
Grieve Wrote:(I started enthusiastically describing this to my wife...after a minute or so she interrupted with "I stopped listening at 'Star Wars'"...)
Wives are so classic.
Vanna often tells me.
"I love you enough to pretend to listen. Just don't bore me to long."
Vllad
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - amins - 07-01-2009
And yet for some reason they get mad at us when we don't listen to them....
Women are hypocrits.
/flame suit activated.
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Vanraw - 07-01-2009
amins Wrote:And yet for some reason they get mad at us when we don't listen to them....
Women are hypocrits.
/flame suit activated.
QFT QFT!!!!
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Grieve - 07-02-2009
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MFOduNUE8U[/youtube]
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Hoofhurr - 07-02-2009
Let's make this thread about women who marry geeks but don't respect our interests!
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - 1000xZero - 07-02-2009
Hoofhurr Wrote:Let's make this thread about women who marry geeks but don't respect our interests!
Done!
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Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Vllad - 07-02-2009
They married us in the hopes of changing us into the being they couldn't get in the first place!
Vllad
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Starlynne - 07-08-2009
I knew Bulgy was a gamer... Heck I think I'm more a power gamer comparatively.
And no... I didn't marry him so I could change him.
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Fretty - 07-08-2009
Vllad Wrote:They married us in the hopes of changing us into the being they couldn't get in the first place!
Vllad
Outstanding phrase Vllad, I love it!
Is it a product of Vllad, or elsewhere?
Re: UNLIMITED POW-WER!!!! - Vllad - 07-08-2009
Fretty Wrote:Vllad Wrote:They married us in the hopes of changing us into the being they couldn't get in the first place!
Vllad
Outstanding phrase Vllad, I love it!
Is it a product of Vllad, or elsewhere?
I thought it was common knowledge!
Vllad