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so today I'll be unboxing the head Mouse - or the OCZ Nia neural impulse actuator + I actually don't know much about this yet but I am about to hopefully learn a little something about it now I do know about the original Nia the original Nia used your basically your brainwaves facial expressions eye movements all that kind of stuff to translate into game control or just general PC control camera man also wants me to mention we have NCIX lanyards coming soon these are pretty sweet I actually already grabbed one for myself here so I've switched over my old lanyard to the new ncx lanyard so why don't we just have a look at what's on the back of the box here and it looks like they say pretty much what I already said so you can concentrate that I turn it into keyboard and mouse controls new levels of gaming not previously possible they tout it as a way to heighten the response time for intense games so you can have a thought faster than you can have a thought and then press a button is the theory okay they say it doesn't take a whole lot of time I've never actually used the original Nia or this one yet but I will take some time to use this thing and see what I think of it honestly the whole thing sounded like a gimmick to me and when they said well we'll send you one I said okay and I'm gonna approach this with an open mind because you know what I've been surprised by stranger things being better than I thought in the past so here we are it comes out of its little sleeve and then it's a white box which comes open somehow there we are oh that's actually a pretty nice presentation look at that okay so there's a piece of paper inside please read okay thank you for participate all this is probably not for this is probably not for end-users pre-release version of these so something something something updated biometric scan suite there's a bunch of new software that's going with neiha plus rather than the old Nia so that's pretty good and then hopefully I'll be able to give you a lot more details on this once I have a chance to go through this thing and actually test it so why don't we have a look at the included stuff in the box first we have the Nia unit itself okay so this has kind of a brushed aluminum thing it's got some dust on it but no big deal it has kind of like a curvy shape to it varied space-age looking I suppose its uses a USB interface and that looks like a reset switch in the back here let's go around to the front that is the end link so I'm assuming that's how it plugs into the headband and then up on the top we've got our Nia branding again little brushed aluminum box it's quite heavy actually so there's gotta be something inside there there's your ocz branding on the top there's my serial number the warranty is void if you remove that or that alright so there's the Nia unit itself and here is the headband it's quite flexible now they say it's one size fits all but I guess that remains to be seen and I'm gonna wait to click that on so we're gonna show you the other accessories first off this is just a USB cable and this is the Nia software pre-release version so it's on just a CD with a paper printed thing on it so I'm guessing the retail one will come with a proper CD oh this is cool this looks like little tentacles coming out of the back of your head so it's like this thing is like an alien or something so hold on there's gotta be instructions or something okay okay bear with me because I'm gonna try and figure out how to wear the headband if you are a beginner do this do that nope nothing they actually do not tell you how to put it on so it must be really easy then it must just be a matter of just putting it on this thing that's really weird actually it's kind of a Care let's just like look at the unit itself so it's got kind of a rubbery nough stu it okay and it's quite soft and sort of spongy feeling there's uh okay there's two oh here here this may be like pre-release hardware so might not be the actual fit and finish of it but basically there's a cord going in there in fact I can pretty much guarantee that not finalized fit and finish but hopefully it has all the functionality and then that ends in your little end link there so that'll come out this way and then here are the little pads that make contact with your head so that's what reads your your brainwaves and translates that into something that your computer can understand and then yeah so why don't we go ahead and put this on so it has to make direct contact with your skin in all likelihood okay you just press this little button here and you pull the tentacles out in order to expand the headband apparently I have a larger head than anyone at OCC was expecting okay and it goes on just like that and the camera man's got a big old smile on his face he thinks this is funny yeah well laugh it up maybe you'll be trying the NIA next cameraman okay thank you for checking out my unboxing of the OCZ Nia plus a head mouse or like headcrab and so head something anyway yes that's it thank you for checking out my video blog subscribe if you want to see more about the NIA