Gadgetory

oh I lost okay so I've been asked for a demonstration video of the OCZ Nia or a neural impulse actuator and so this is a bit of a practical demonstration of how the nia can allow me to control this paddle using what a control that they call tension so I found I'm able to control my tension not very well while I'm talking but I can usually control my tension either by raising my brow or lowering it or also by by clenching my jaw so that allows me to control the paddle and direct the ball back towards the computer player using only like only like actions and and thoughts there's actually some other pretty cool stuff in here and I just wanted to show you this one this is part of their driver so I tried a few things and I wish I'd done this on camera cuz it was pretty neat but one of the things that I tried was eating and I found that when I when I was eating my whole brain kind of went nuts and all of the all of the different brain waves all maxed out but ok some of the controls that you can use with the Nia to control your games are attention so I found ways to control that I think it's different for for everybody another one is glance so it's easy recommends using glance and here at cameraman come out and have a look at me so what glance does is here if I look straight ahead glance should zero out can you see glance in the background make it so you can see glance in the background ok so I'm going to stare straight into the camera now watch I'm going to look a little bit to the left of the camera glance goes up and then if I look to the right then glance will also go up now the Nia can actually tell whether I'm glancing left or right so ocz recommends setting glance to strafe left and strafe right and then they recommend using tension to control your forward movement now I haven't found I've only been playing with it for a little while I haven't found ways to control the alpha waves or the beta waves but you can actually configure those to control other things as well and when you're playing me upon you can this is a good practice because you can use glance alpha 1 2 3 or beta 1 2 3 or attention to control the paddle so if I use glance if I glanced more if I look around more the paddle raises up and if I look straight ahead the paddle goes down so that's the NIA it hooks up to your head and then to your computer and you can use it to to control things so that was my my demonstration video I don't think I'm good enough with it yet to do a game demo but hopefully that will be coming sometime in the future it's definitely a very cool device something very different