Broken Robot Girl by Tamar Levine and Rob Sheridan.
The EPOC Neuroheadset isn’t meant for sex chat rooms, and I’m sure the company wants nothing to do with sexual applications for their product. I’m sure. No one would want that. Oh no. But the first commercially available EEG neuroheadset is just *primed* for possibilities:
A San Francisco–based neuroengineering company called Emotiv is developing a brain–computer interface that they say will be available on the commercial market later this year. The EPOC neuroheadset uses EEG technology to read electrical patterns in the brain and then sends this information through wireless signals to a computer.
According to Emotiv, the headset will be used with new biofeedback games or can be incorporated into popular PC games like Harry Potter, where characters could pick up and move objects with the power of their minds. In addition, the EPOC could eventually be used in multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft or Second Life to control facial expressions of virtual game characters in real time. Emotiv claims the headset can detect and replicate thirty different emotional and facial expressions, including excitement, anger, laughter, and calmness. (…read more, hplusmagazine.com, thanks David!)
Via email: “Someday they’ll also be mapped onto avatars in virtual worlds, and it’s already allowing gamers to literally pick up and move objects with the power of their minds. It’ll finally be released this year, and amazingly, it’s battery-powered — and it’s the first brain-computer interface that won’t require scalp gel or electrodes.”
I remember that scene in Barbarella when Dildano(David Hemmings) and Barbarella(Jane Fonda) have this crazy form of mindmeld sex. I wonder if that is where this technology is taking us. This is one area that no matter how fine the robot is, or how real the virtual experience is ,t’ain’t nothing like the real thing! I’m very update to date on all things technological however there is something about the tactile sensation of real skin as one example that such an experience may never be able to match.But I must admit that some of those Humanoid Cylons on the new Galactica were alluring to say the least…..