Teenager Plays Video Game Just By Thinking (SPACE.com / LiveScience.com)

Sara Goudarzi LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Thu Oct 12, 2:30 PM ET The days of attacking aliens with a joystick could soon be over thanks to a breakthrough technique where a teenager played Space Invaders using only signals from his brain . With a technique that takes data from the surface of the brain, a 14-year-old boy from St. Louis was able to play the two-dimensional Atari game without so much as lifting a finger [see video of the study]. In Space Invaders, a popular computer game ...