So this Xmas, I got an insanely cool game, both insanely cool to us uber-geeks, and insanely cool to "normal folk"-- Mindflex. [official website, lots of cool stuff there] You play by putting on a headband and clipping a sensor to each ear lobe. The headband has two sensors on your forehead. These sensors read the brain waves produced by, well, your brain. If you're relaxed, you're not producing the kind of brain waves it senses. If you're concentrating hard on something, anything, you're producing lots of this kind of brain waves that the sensors can pick up on. So this headband talks wirelessly to the board, where there is a fan blowing straight upwards. The speed of the fan is directly controlled by how hard you're concentrating. Cool! This fan can be rotated left/right around a circular path by a knob on the board. And the last piece is that there is loose lightweight ball you can place on the circular mesh track the fan moves under.
So rotate the fan directly underneath the ball, concentrate hard on something, and STAND BACK JACK-- you just made the fan blow hard, which raised the ball to a height that corresponds directly with your level of concentration. You can think "I want the ball to rise up to right there", and it WILL, if you concentrate at the right level. Then, when you get distracted (it happens, "floating ball, floating ball, float-- OOH SQUIRREL!!!"), your concentration level drops, and the fan blows less hard, thus the ball floats less high, maybe drops to the board. So you can float a ball all the way around the circle with your mind!
And then to make it challenging, there's all kinds of pieces you can snap onto the board in any configuration above the circular mesh track that the fan moves under as obstacles. And it has several games built in, such as "mental marathon" which times how long it takes you to complete the circuit, then you can pit your time against someone else who plays the exact same obstacle configuration.
And with a very hard setup, I managed to squeak out a 3:12. TAKE THAT, SQUIRREL! Here, wanna see me play? [Youtube video]
Hide -n- go seek
In between Q & S is Arrr!
My pirate name is:
Captain Jack Kidd
Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!
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