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Mindflex

Mind-Controlled Theremin Is Now a Reality

by Robert Quigley | 2:35 pm, September 6th

Mattel’s Mindflex is an $80 gadget (don’t call it a toy!) that measures brain activity, which makes it irresistible to the DIY crowd. Robert Schneider, frontman for the indie rock group Apples in Stereo, has turned it to extra-cool use by combining it with a vintage Moog synthesizer, effectively creating a mind-controlled theremin.

Schneider:

“Experimental composers like Alvin Lucier and Pierre Henry used EEG sensors to make brain-controlled music as early as the 1950′s. What is cool about the Teletron is that you can go out and buy this toy and make this simple mod, and mentally control your own synthesizer at home.”

Video demonstration below:

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Evil Mindflex Hack: Think Too Much, Get Shocked

by Robert Quigley | 2:01 pm, March 4th

Mindflex is a Mattel gadget that you hook up to your head to read your brainwaves: Among other uses, you can play with Mindflex by levitating and manipulating a foam ball.  Naturally, an $80 out-of-the-box brainwave reader is going to be like catnip to electrical engineering types, many of whom have hacked the Mindflex to suit their own ends.

The folks at Harcos Laboratories just may have come with the most devious use of Mindflex yet: they’ve hooked it up to an electroshock unit such that if you think too hard, you get zapped. Yes, that includes thinking about not thinking too hard. Video after the jump:

 

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