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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_3525000/3525487.stm
Mind Balance uses a new wireless headset which picks up brain wave patterns through special electrodes. The player's brain is "tuned in" by concentrating on flashing images, and then they can control the game. The technology could be used in future computer games, and could also help scientists make special computers to help people who can't move well. To get their brain working with the game the player first focusses on two chequered boxes which flash at different speeds or frequencies. By looking at the boxes in turn a frog-like virtual character in the game, called Mawg, balances and walks across a tight-rope. If he starts falling to the left, the player has to concentrate on the box on the right. The game is not for sale, but it is a way for the researchers to learn how to develop the technology. But the researchers say gamers could be attaching headsets to their own heads in a few years' time.