The Android Generation – Gearing towards a more highly connected and wired world

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reads the electromagnetic brain waves and interprets the input as a set of commands. The machine was introduced by Emotiv in 2008 as a prototype candidate for extensive R&D and commercialization.

The helmet from Emotiv, a true encephalographic (EEG) device is currently available on the market for just under $300 and for early adopters will be

shipping with upcoming video games that are designed for optimal interface.

The EEG device has already been featured on the BBC, Discovery Channel, Forbes, CNBC, ABC Television and WIRED magazine.

The worrisome part is that this
technology is being welcomed

for the sake of entertainment.

At the onset of the New Millennium, many companies in the film production industries, cinema and television, started a global campaign to go digital.

Production of films, creating sets and props, can now be done entirely on computers. Movie theaters are now almost

without exception equipped with digital projectors as of this year, in the United States.

There are technology groups now contemplating pushing the consumer viewing experience further than just 3D.

Following the massive success of Avatar, not only are movie studios all compelled to shoot major productions in 3D, but in a few years it will be the norm as entertainment products

groups are considering installing simulator type seats into the theaters, the type you can find today at the Star Wars ride at Disneyland, and with telepathic helmets that only now can read not just thoughts and commands but your brain’s emotions, the device can be adapted with future R&D to transmit into the moviegoer’s brain emotions and feelings, all of which will combine to give the moviegoer an immersive experience - unrivaled and without equal.

Does this ring any bells for anyone? It would be the technology scenario envisioned yesterday, portrayed with Natalie Wood and Christopher Walken in the early 1980s film Brainstorm.

Wow, oh wow. This can’t be here soon enough.

The WHO and the CDC would also be jumping on the bandwagon, since the incidence of AIDS, Herpes and other sex