If you are raving over Nintendo Wii’s controller, you will be overawed by the ‘brain mouse’, the brand new neural impulse actuator from OCZ. After game controllers with motion sensitive gameplay, we now have the ‘brain mouse’. Talking about making your game characters dance to your tunes with a keyboard, now you can make characters in your games dance to your tunes albeit with your thoughts. How cool is that? Think to shoot, think to move, think to emote, and the list is endless. All this is made possible by the neural impulse actuator in tandem with the brain control interface control peripherals developed by OCZ, the enthusiast and extremist hardware provider. This device hopes to revolutionise the way gamers interact with their consoles. So, what makes this device tick? The neural impulse actuator uses the brain’s electroencephalograph (EEG) signals and converts them into custom keystrokes or mouse inputs which can then be used to control gameplay.
But before that, for the device to obey your brain’s EEG, it needs to be attuned to your brain’s signals. For that, you will need to train and calibrate the controller, for which OCZ offers a comprehensive training and calibration kit with the controller. For the entire neural impulse actuator controller kit, expect to pay $300 which is quite steep by gaming controller standards, but for the kind of technology it offers, very justifiable. Looking the way controller technology is progressing, your good old keyboard and the mouse may soon become extinct.
