Reddit mentions of Mindflex Game

He has a device that analyzes his brain waves and directs the suit based on that. That's how it works in the MCU at least (when he uses the suits remotely). The technology actually exists in real life. There is a toy called Mindflex where you move a ball through a small obstacle course by using a headset that transmits brain waves, which activates air streams that move the ball up or down.

EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG

Ok, here's my attempt to simplify & explain...

The brain constantly gives off electrical signals. With the right equipment, you can see it, capture that signal, and associate the unique pattern with certain thoughts or images.

There are kids toys that do this. One was called Mindflex

It's not mind reading, per se, as people involved in this area of research and development like to call it because calling it a computer reading minds sounds sexy to those who don't know better.

To me, this is like calling that contraption with wheels a "hoverboard." Ummm, nope.

For example, you have this sensor shower cap on and hooked up to a computer that can read the electrical impulses your brain is giving off. You are asked to think of and visualize an elephant.

The computer associates a particular and unique pattern of electrical signals your brain is giving off while thinking of an elephant with... wait for it... an elephant.

This is not new. But using an AI in the process is.

This is also why this needs to be trained.

The holy grail of this area of tech is accuracy with no training.

I tell people, "Call me when they..."

• Have a system that doesn't need training or those predefined associations and
  
  
• Can take a random person never encountered by the system before, sit them down, hook them up, and accurately read their random thoughts and display those images on a screen.

Controlling gene expression is something we can do chemically already - what's "of note" to the writer of the (lay) article is the supposed brain interface. Unfortunately, all we have here is an abstraction that converts certain patterns of brainwaves to electrical signals that are used to induce some downstream biological effect. Since the brainwave capturer/interpreter seems to have no more specificity or innovation to it than almost decade-old puzzle toys that let you "control a ball with your mind" (see link below), all we have in this article is an absurdly sensational scifi headline and a proof of concept that we can use electrical signals to effect biological systems - something we already knew since we use electricity to make virtually anything happen already.

Really not a useful article at all by the Independent, though it is a great example of bad headline writing and credulous science reporting.

The actual thing the paper proves is that we can in theory control gene expression with our brains if we ever advance brain-electrical interfaces beyond caveman status. But since it doesn't actually tackle the years-old bottleneck that prevents us from doing so, it's not that exciting at all. The same thing could have been demonstrated without adding the distraction of "PSYCHIC POWER" headlines by using a battery or any power supply (we already know that we can flip switches on/off by arbitrarily interpreting brainwaves - there's nothing useful there scientifically), but it wouldn't have generated sensational headline attention for the researchers. Lots of red flags here from the researchers and journalists both.

The toy that has been doing this same "PSYCHIC CONTROL" thing for years, in case you need a gift idea for a preteen: http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG

Measuring brain activity would be done with an EEG (electroencephalogram). This is done with electrodes placed on the scalp and feed through an amplifier to a program on a computer that can read the "brain waves." If you want people to "quiet their mind," you are looking for a change from beta activity to alpha activity in their brain waves (unless you want them to go to sleep). You will want to read up on neurofeedback to see what people are doing in this area.

Google around for DIY EEG devices. I have no idea how well they work, but people are out there playing around and making EEGs at home. Here is a guy that hacked an EEG toy. This product went out of business, so I don't know if you could pick up a head band cheap and hack it.

If you are still at the university, you may want to ask around in the biology or physiology department (maybe even psychology). They may have an amplifier system used for class labs that you can borrow that can do EEG (I have one sitting in my office collecting dust). Examples would be Biopac or PowerLab. These would not be cheap to buy yourself, but like I said, there could be a spare one laying around in a supply closet in the teaching labs.

was a week ago, but since i didn't post then, I'll post it now.

picked up one of these at a thrift store: http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG

Box is opened, but taped down hard so I didn't verify content sin the store (and for 2.50 I don't think I need to)

with the holidays I haven't tested it out, but I'm excited to play with it then sell it.

I also got a box of Settler of Cataan that had this inside: http://www.amazon.com/Mayfair-Games-Replacement-Settlers-Alliance/dp/B000HN8KJ8/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1451324268&sr=1-1&keywords=catan+replacement

It's very confusing because it doesn't seem like replacement cards should sell for more than the game, and then of course it's also confusing that this copy of the game doesn't have the original cards just the replacements...

MindFlex
We sell it at my store.

Yep. A few years back a kids toy came out called mindflex where you control a small ball, propelled and lifted by air current, through small hoops using a EEG headband.

Here's a nice overview of the other options for EEG to Arduino - http://www.frontiernerds.com/brain-hack

This one is a lot more fun

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UEUHCG

Use the force

meh close enought

Mindflex Game https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UEUHCG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_R49TBbKFTC91N

There is a board game: http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG

Looking online, the keyword you're going to want to use is "neurogaming" and it appears to be in development, but there's nothing major I recognize. From what I know about these sorts of things from documentaries about medicine and the like, with practice you can certainly learn to control these quite well. They can be used for people with severe physical disabilities to move a cursor, for instance. Some of the reviews for the board game above are very negative because people found the process of learning to be too difficult. The problem is basically that what has to change is you - you have to build the mass of neurons in that part of the brain to control the device, the device does not point at some part of the brain you're already using to imagine what you want it to do.

heres the link

https://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG?keywords=the+mindflex&qid=1536706541&sr=8-1&ref=sr_1_1

No that was mindflex released in 2009. Same game different controlls. The Harry Potter version I remember playing in kindergarten so maybe late 2001, early 2002, used knobs and levers so it was a lot easier

Mindflex

I think this is great, not only because it's ridiculous, but because it kinda makes fun of motion (and to a degree touch-screen gesture) controls for computers and other devices.

The ways in which we interact with computers, from the invention of the mouse to today, has been designed with the mouse and keyboard in mind. For that reason, those two devices are the most efficient and convenient way to interact and navigate through modern GUIs. While touchscreens, motion gestures, and voice recognition may be "cool" and feel like the future, they're rarely, if ever, a better way to interact with a computer than our good ol' keyboard-mouse pair.

I believe things will stay this way for the foreseeable future. Perhaps when mind control becomes as accurate and fine-tuned as the mouse and keyboard (and not just a novelty), we'll see a change in the way computers are controlled. But for now, I'd like to sit stationary in this desk chair and keep my oily fingers off my nice widescreen monitor.

Wait, so you're telling me that games like the Mindflex is actually real? They read alpha/beta brainwaves?
http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG

I was debating this with my gf, telling her that there's not way a $60 game could actually read brainwaves. I thought the whole thing was just programmed to move up and down randomly.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game/dp/B001UEUHCG
   
   
2. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/related?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0105225
   
   
3. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
   
   also, please keep in mind, the first EEG machine was completed in 1924. ninety-three years of R&D. think for a second. the first computer was completed in 1946. we figured out that forwards time travel was possible in 1919.
   
   let all that sink in, folks.

There are already lot of games available that uses just your brain as controller Throw trucks Mindflex

You can even Control an iPhone using your brain

Brain controlled prosthesis as good as one finger typing

World of warcraft controlled using EEG

VR games + BCI + augmented reality is the future. And its closer than you think