i.gizmodo.com - 1/11/2009
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A simplified EEG-based game using the Star Wars license tricks kids into thinking they have Professor X-like abilities, when all they're doing is learning to activate one part of their brain. This Force Trainer, priced at $90-$100, hooks up to your head via wireless headset and transmits your ...
usatoday.com - 1/8/2009
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usatoday.com —
The Force Trainer (expected to be priced at
$90 to $100) comes with a headset that uses...
brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and Luke Skywalker's abilities in the Star Wars ...
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Toy trains 'Star Wars' fans to use The Force
shinyshiny.tv - 1/13/2009
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shinyshiny.tv —
Apparently, The Force is in all of us.
However, as all die hard Star Wars fans will...
know (and those who have spent many hours brow furrowing and concentrating hard on an object willing it to move), some individuals prove more adept at wielding ...
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The Star Wars Force Trainer wants you to use The Force
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Science makes the Force Real
Fashionfunky.com —
For Star wars fan boys, games like this mean that they can finally do something that they could only dream of until yesterday. Science has made the force become real. Its one of the first applications of brain control , where the gadget is able to read what your mind is ordering and accordingly order the ball to move within a 10 inch training tower. ...
Star Wars Force Trainer Brains On: Is The Force With Me? [Toy Fair 2009]
Gizmodo —
... built for me and sells as the Star Wars Force Trainer. It picks up my brain waves from sensors on a wireless headset and beams them to the receiver, which moves a floating ball in a tube only if I concentrate just so. ...
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