As of September 2007, Nintendo has sold over 13 million Wii game consoles. This significantly exceeds the number of Tablet PCs in use today according to even the most generous estimates of Tablet PC sales. This makes the Wii Remote one of the most common computer input devices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated. It contains a 1024x768 infrared camera with built-in hardware blob tracking of up to 4 points at 100Hz. This significantly out performs any PC "webcam" available today. It also contains a +/-3g 8-bit 3-axis accelerometer also operating at 100Hz and an expandsion port for even more capability. These projects are an effort to explore and demonstrate applications that the millions of Wii Remotes in world readily support.

Brain-Computer Interaction is an enticing idea that has existed for several decades and primarily rooted in the field of neuroscience and rehabilitation engineering. However, it is a relatively new idea to see how the benefits of this technology can be applied to able bodied individuals in the effort to give the computers a better understanding of its user. This is work I did with Microsoft Research shows how a very low-cost EEG device can be used to correctly identify mental and physical tasks of the user with 93% accuracy. Additionally, it presents the idea that motion artifacts can be leveraged to improve classification if you are not trying to claim a neurological basis for the data.

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The system collects like "pledges" of action for posted large and small group projects, and then "releases" them all at once when a pre-specified "enough" is reached. Seems good to me!

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