Females only?
Because I've heard it's rare for a male brain to be able to control a chopper.
Brain-controlled helicopters could be ready for Santa's elves to drop down US chimneys in time for Christmas this year. San Francisco firm Puzzlebox has raised the cash it needs to put together its flying toys, equipped with an electroencephalography (EEG) headset, twice over on Kickstarter. The headset "reads" brain waves …
Curious as to whether this works, i used to work with a company that was trying to use brainwave headsets (Cant remember the manafacturer) to control games and such, it never got off the ground despite 5 years of trying to get something more than a random number out of the headset.
Yes we can read brain waves, yes we can turn that into a number that we can then build upon, no we cant do anything useful with it yet.
I admire the opening up of the process etc but honestly dont expect this to do much til at least a few more years of dev.
I have this EEG device on my desk right now. The only useful thing it can do is to measure overall brain activity reasonably ok, I.e. alert and relaxed. So the only thing you can successfully and repeatably do is to switch between the above mentioned states by focusing on a particular thought, or closing your eyes, which will almost automatically force you in to low activity mental state . Glorified toggle switch... Meh...