New kid's toy coming out: It gives you telekinesis.

[Individual]

Okay, so not REALLY telekinesis, but close enough.

Mattel demonstrated the toy at a recent toy company conference. It's coming out this year, sometime between next month and Christmas.

It's called MindFlex and it measures theta-waves in your brain, to power a fan, which causes a foam ball to hover, higher or lower depending on how much you're concentrating. It's pretty neat, but it's gonna cost about $100.

Here's a picture:


Here's a video demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6RCACuNEbY&feature=fvst

And their website (nothing on there yet, though):
http://www.mindflexgames.com/

Are we going to see more post-modern peripherals like this? You know... No more remote control for the TV, no more keyboard & mouse, car keys, light switches or even a clapper... Everything in the future will use WIRELESS electricity and be controlled by voice-activation, spatial recognition software recognizing your movements, and miniature EEG machines that utilize the power of thought itself!

[retrofuturist]

I'd love to see a monk meditating in the formless jhanas using it!

Metta,
Retro.

[Ben]

Its probably already causing Madame Blavatsky to roll in her grave!

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Its probably already causing Madame Blavatsky to roll in her grave!

What makes you think she is still in her grave?

[Ben]

Its probably already causing Madame Blavatsky to roll in her grave!

What makes you think she is still in her grave?

I beg your pardon, Bhante. Its just an expression, and a joke.
I don't actually believe the being that was Madame Blavatsky is somehow stuck in or with her disintegrating corpse.
The reason I said that was because I remember many years ago seeing a huge volume of blue books on different aspects of the occult written by her and published by the Theosophical Society.
As a young 19-year-old I took home and read her book 'On Telepathy'. I'm pretty sure there was also a work on Telekinesis.
Kind regards

Ben