Sunday, July 5th, 2009...12:48 pm

Toyota demonstrates electric wheelchair controlled by the mind



While it may not be strictly car news, we just couldn’t resist writing this story up about Toyota’s new ‘Brain Machine Interface’ technology. While it may sound like something out of the Terminator movies at first, the technology is an amazing step forward and could have huge implications for almost any product on the market right now.

Hot on the heels of Honda’s own version of the technology, which we reported on earlier, Toyota’s new system allows a person to steer an electric wheelchair through simple thought, using a helmet-like device that measures their brain waves.

Honda’s Brain Machine Interface

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