Hopefully...
... I'll be able to think myself out of bed and into work soon.
All joking aside, this is pretty amazing stuff.
The evolution of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology appears to have taken another leap forward thanks to a group of Chinese boffins who’ve invented a toy quadracopter that can be controlled by human thought alone. Researchers at Zhejiang University in the eastern city of Hangzhou designed the copter with an on-board …
Remembering the last time I flew in a helicopter, I started to clench my teeth (as well as another portion of my anatomy) when the copter started to descend - it was doing so rather rapidly at the time. Icon? Describes my feelings at that moment.
"For example, thinking “left hard” will make the drone take off and land; thinking “left lightly” will get it to rotate clockwise; and thinking “right” will make it fly forwards."
Surely it would be more instinctive to "think forward" to go forward, "think hard right" to turn right, "think up" to go up, etc
...unless I'm missing something fundamental in the way the brain works.
Otherwise, great concept.