New game gizmo uses mind control

Freaky dude. I am amused that this sort of thing is being brought in as game technology, which is undoubtedly much more commercial than, for example, disabled support services. I can certainly see it heading in that direction soon after. Paranoia may also point out that training a machine to basically read your mind might lead to all sorts of uncomfortable to scary lie-detector-type scenarios.

(Assuming it is not yet another over-hyped and under-researched article, but it looks more or less legit from this end.)

I bought an Xbox 360 recently, my first ever console. Assassin's Creed came as a freebie, and it's a beautiful thing -- how the story goes, we shall have to see. I've also played round with a couple of other game demos, and picked up Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic cheap (having familiarised myself with the backward compatibility list).

One very neat thing is that it streams avi video from my PC. Now, to try and stop Windows Media Centre updating itself halfway through an episode of something...