The Brainball project attended the wonderful Thoughtmade exhibition with a lot of other cool ideas. There is no official record of us being there, as we were not sure if we could make it on time. Unfortunately we were not able to take part in the rehearsal and thus had to wing things a bit.
We worked in our office until 2 PM and then Fredrik Henricsson completed the Android version during the TEDxÖresund talks taking part before Thoughtmade kicked off. It was delivered by mail to Anders just an hour before the public was let in, but we really did make it.
Our talk began with a test person putting on the headband connected to the phone. A PowerPoint presentation was then shown with different pictures, some nice, some interesting and some a bit controversial. While the images were displayed, the graph on the phone was observed for odd brain patterns. Interesting and fun, but as the graph fluctuates quite a bit under normal circumstances, the interpretation was left to the observer. Most people reacted with a bump in the graph when they were shown an image of a cute kitten.
You might also be interested in the works of Chris Hughes, who implemented a brain game in which you physically knocked down your opponent. Do watch the videos at thoughtmade.com!
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