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and on bail here for cnet.com here at CES 2013 with my very first brain-controlled helicopter this is the puzzlebox orbit it retails for a hundred and eighty nine dollars you get the remote-controlled helicopter you get the neuro sky headset and you also get an IR blaster that pokes out of the headphone jack of your compatible tablet or phone the problem here is if I concentrate too hard it's going straight up to the ceiling so I'm trying to hold on to it it's also not on right now so that helps the other cool thing about this project is that it's all open source so if you feel like you want to hack it there even to provide you a guide for hacking the software yourself and making maybe a giant version of this to control the world or Menace your neighbors or your cat probably your cat I know you don't believe me what you probably want is proof that this thing actually works so let's try it again the cool thing about this is that you can actually adjust the amount of concentration required to make it turn on or shut off there's a threshold adjustment on the software so because I'm here and I'm concentrating pretty hard on what I'm saying it wants to take flight the thing is I'm actually not that smart so going dumb quickly is one of my strong strong suits alright so there you go the first mind-controlled robot and hopefully not killing anyone around me that I've ever seen here at CES 2013 sitcom I'm Tom Bell