Mindball is played on a 4-foot-long table by two people with electrodes taped to their foreheads. These biosensors detect alpha and theta brain waves–generated during intense concentration and deep relaxation–and correspondingly instruct a computer inside the table to move a rubber-coated steel ball via a magnetic sleigh below the surface.
The online article doesn’t really do the game justice as in the printed publication you get to see pictures of what the game looks like. I wouldn’t stand a chance.
Thanks to Mark for the link.
Mindball And The Art Of Telekinesis
Mindball is an experience product, a game where two players control a ball with their brain waves. The player being most relaxed wins the game. The brain waves are detected by sensors attached to the headbands. The sensors (electrodes) are…
To the Press Department
PRESS RELEASE : Inventor writes a letter to the President of the Italian Republic, H. E. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
” I WILL JUSTICE, IT IS I THE INVENTOR OF MINDBALL !
Press Men,
I will to communicate that the Mindball, presented in to the Festival of Science, that will be held in Genova (october – november 2004) is a my and prof. Ugo Licinio’s invention.
The patent has been registered at the C.C.I.A.A. of Trieste on 30/08/1984, n. reg. 9/82809, as:
“Sistema elettronico predisposto a sostituire nei giochi elettronici i comandi manuali esistenti
con equivalenti comandi direttamente dal cervello” (Electronic system of cerebral controls that takes the place of the manual controls in to the electronic plays).
We are stolen, by fraud, of this invention by a person, later dead in mysterious circumstances in South America, and president of a company in Milan, the CIPA S.p.A.
If You are interested to know more informations and case’s documentation,
Best Regards, Vinicio de Bortoli
http://www.mindball.it