news 28 Posted November 6, 2008 OCZ NIA - Will Gaming With Brain Waves Take Off? OCZ saw an exciting opportunity to enhance the gaming experience and take PC gameplay to new heights by using technology that has helped the disabled for years. The OCZ NIA is the first commercially available BCI (brain-computer interface) specifically for PC gamers and we give it a test drive to see how it works and what is on the inside. Read on to see how the NIA turns electroencephalograph signals into specified keystrokes! Quote: "After spending a few weeks using the NIA on Vista Ultimate 64-bit with the new 2.001 NIA drivers, I experienced some good and bad with the NIA. I started off with the Pong game that is built into the OCZ NIA software bundle. Nice, simple and a good way to give your head a work out. In fact, after about 10 minutes of flexing my head to move the pong paddle up and down..." or "Flipping the NIA circuit board over over we can see "OCZ Technology power by Brainfingers Technology". A quick Google search of Brainfingers will land you at the home page for a company that builds and designs hardware and software that enable you to control your computer totally hands-free. Looking deeper into the Brainfingers site you quickly find out that Brainfingers designed this technology to be used by a broad range of people with disabilities. Even users with minimal ability to control facial muscles can usually learn how to map 'clicks' to a number of special controls. OCZ Technology saw a chance to bring this technology to a totally different market as it also can work for gaming since a PC must be used to make it work and the signals could easily be mapped to actions in games..." Article Title: OCZ NIA - Will Gaming With Brain Waves Take Off? ( -at -) Legit Reviews Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/820/1/ -- Share this post Link to post
