Gadgetory

the board of imagination is the latest brainchild pun intended from chaotic moon labs the innovative research and development studio based in Austin Texas it is quite literally a mind-controlled skateboard and it turns out the mind is sometimes hard to control you stepped on the switch and you broke it so it was the safety switch was disabled and as you were as you were thinking as you were running the board was racing back along the side board of imagination uses an emotive headset and it scans your brain and this is gonna be a little cold and it might feel slightly strange that's awful yeah it's freezing all right it's essentially just an EEG and we convert your brainwaves into commands for the board specifically the reason we call it the board of imagination is you imagine where you want to go and so we've mapped and modeled that over a bunch of different people and written some algorithms it kind of normalizes all that out so it works for almost anyone I can't believe they can see my thoughts on there it's got 36 volts of power and it has a Samsung Windows 8 tablet you can imagine going there and imagine how fast you want to go there and you're going to take off so if you think about it and it doesn't go like just keep thinking about it and then like you go with it have you ever been thinking you know you're running you can't just when it pops up you can't just jump them in the end otherwise you scrape your DS across the ground if they pass you have to let it take you oh I thought about stopping I hope now I thought about going mm-hmm use the Force chaotic mood most recently debuted their Kinect controlled Board of Awesomeness at CES 2012 in Las Vegas and they used that technology to develop a self-guided shopping cart that can follow shoppers around stores and even electronically scan items lab general manager Worley won't say what they're working on with the board of imagination technology but it has amazing implications for the disabled or motion impaired but if you implement this in wheelchairs or something like that is it just gonna be a matter of training for people it could be we've actually found a way to use eye movement and head movement and several other things with similar systems so we can probably be implementing several alternates that people can try out what works best for them and what's easiest and the least effort for people in that situation with chaotic mood labs in Austin Texas I'm Molly wood for cnet.com you