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Mind controlled toy brings Jedi skills to the home

Becoming a Jedi just got a little easier, for kids anyway, with the release of a brand new brain controlled toy.

‘The Force Trainer’ comes with a wireless headset which reads alpha and beta brainwaves to control a ball in a tube. I have no idea what that means either, or how it makes you a Jedi.

“Develop your powers of concentration you will”, said Yoda, which is all I need to be told to spend $100 (about £60) so I can live out a Jedi dream.

The headset is basically a watered down EEG test, which measures brainwaves and tiny electrical signals in your head.

It seems a little premature to get nostalgic at 23, but in my day all I had to play with was a Megadrive and a bike with full suspension – a far, deprived cry from all this mind reading technology.

No one seems too concerned that a toy maker is bringing out a device capable of scanning brains, but that’s probably because it is just so cool.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .