Apply directly to the forehead.

If you've ever wanted to swap sweat with a partial alopecian, you've never had a better opportunity than visiting this test booth at the CeBIT communications conference going on in Hanover.

It may not look like it, but the fella at the left is controlling the computer game...with his mind.

That little band around his forehead isn't some CosPlay garment. It's a USB powered Neural Impulse Actuator. Like the interface described in earlier Convergence posts, this little device, predicted to be on the market in one form or another by Xmas '08, uses brainwaves to control mouse arrows, avatars, and other objects on the screen. Take a look at the dude's face. He's totally in the Matrix.

Our buddies at Futurismic recently had this complaint:

"I don’t know about you, but I’ve adapted well to the standard keyboard/mouse computer interface....Unfortunately, this ability honed over decades may soon be obsolete."

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