[wtf] [seil] brainwave-controlled robotic cat ears

[Fifthfiend]

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/5/neurowear-cat-ears

literally kill all science

time for another dark ages

[Kim]

You're just jealous you can't afford them.

ADMIT IT

[Fifthfiend]

I can afford them and I will buy them so I can find where you live and choke you to death with them.

[Kerensky287]

for the record fifth

i'm sure they would look fantastic on you

[ChaoticBrain]

Well they look butt-ugly now, but give them time to work on the design and I'm sure it'll be worth buying.

[Flarecobra]

And thus came the birth of the Neko-Cyborg.

[Seil]

I'm fairly certain Japan has Neko-Cyborgs.

[Azisien]

I can afford them and I will buy them so I can find where you live and choke you to death with them.

With that much rage flowing through you the ears may actually become stabbing implements!

[TDK]

That is some awesome technology right there.

But just like

Seriously japan? Goddammit.

[Aldurin]

I want one of those, but like as an afro instead. AN AFRO THAT MOVES WHEN YOU THINK.

"I had to grow this afro so that I could keep my brain out of the sunlight. All of that wiggling is indicating when I'm thinking hard."

[Kim]

I on the side of "These will be so damn awesome once they're cuter."

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Damn these are just so neat! X3

Would be pretty cool to one day see a ninja scarf built using the same tech improved a pone.

[Aerozord]

reguardless of what you think about implementation, technology thats able to sync up with moods and intensity has alot of potential. Like imagine video games where instead of developers hoping to get lucky with guesses (and often just giving away surprises) music changed depending on your mood. Maybe sensors for teaching to see just how engaged children are with a lesson, ect

[Aldurin]

I was thinking that, but more in the direction of the brainwave equivalent of the big red button in the President's command bunker.

[Aerozord]

oh on its current application, I bet you whenever it moves it makes a very noticeable sound of grinding plastic gears and motors.

[Kerensky287]

I on the side of "These will be so damn awesome once they're cuter."

Once they're less pink. And actually where ears should be instead of just randomly on top of the head. Seeing those girls with TWO SETS OF EARS just kind of makes me go ugh.

But my gawd, make them noiseless, put out varieties of colors that are actually hair-like...

All you gotta do after that is go to Stephanie Meyer and make her vomit up a Jacob-centric twilight spinoff and these things will sell like hotcakes.

And then she will have made up for her past crimes by making the world a far better place.

[Osterbaum]

Goddammit science.

[phil_]

The test unit should have been black. At least the model had the decency to comb her hair over her real ears, mostly.

[Fenris]

Fuck everything.

I quit.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Sometimes there are moments where Japan is obsessed just a wee bit too much with cute things.

This is STILL not one of those moments. Not yet, but it's a close second.

[Seil]

Once they're less pink

That's blasphemy, son!

[rpgdemon]

So, why didn't someone test this technology with something awesomer like extra arms?

[POS Industries]

So, why didn't someone test this technology with something awesomer like extra arms?
Because I'd like to see you try to explain that shit to Spider-Man, that's why.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Because I'd like to see you try to explain that shit to Spider-Man, that's why.

Spider-Man can hate all he wants. We want extra arms damn it!

[Aerozord]

So, why didn't someone test this technology with something awesomer like extra arms?

cause the human hand has like, 28 points of articulation, cat ears have two.

[TDK]

And because it doesn't actually read your brainwaves, IIRC stuff like this reads changes in electrical activity on your skin which corresponds to some of your stronger brainwaves. Hence these can tell between "concentrating" and "not concentrating".

[Aldurin]

Hence these can tell between "concentrating" and "not concentrating".

Hence why the wiggling afro would work the best for this kind of technology.

[Specterbane]

You know what, I feel like being optimistic about this. If they really milked this they could use the revenue from these to fund actual research in adapting things like control of prosthetics which used this as the very very early start of a full control.

That being said you know the next thing they're going to do is bring out a cat tail that does the same shit. You know, once everyone's brains have fallen to their asses.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

You know what, I feel like being optimistic about this. If they really milked this they could use the revenue from these to fund actual research in adapting things like control of prosthetics which used this as the very very early start of a full control.

That being said you know the next thing they're going to do is bring out a cat tail that does the same shit. You know, once everyone's brains have fallen to their asses.

We've already touched base with that.
Oh of course and you can bet the tail will be linked to the headband ears wirelessly.

[rpgdemon]

Hence why the wiggling afro would work the best for this kind of technology.

Yep, pretty much the best application possible.

[Kerensky287]

What about a big, throbbing braincase that pumps harder when you're thinking more deeply and bubbles when you're mad?

Oooh! Next iteration of the cat ears should shoot steam when the person is upset.

[Aerozord]

Oooh! Next iteration of the cat ears should shoot steam when the person is upset.

ok now that, I would buy

[Satan's Onion]

...
Oooh! Next iteration of the cat ears should shoot steam when the person is upset.

I don't know about you, but something like that would just make me giggle. I'd never actually get upset.

[Kerensky287]

I don't know about you, but something like that would just make me giggle. I'd never actually get upset.

But when you forgot about the ears and got cut off in rush-hour traffic, it would just make you crash.