This Game is not a Game

Mindflex is a toy by Mattel, which uses brain waves to steer a ball through an obstacle course. The brain waves are captured with the enclosed EEG headset, which allows the user to speed up or slow down a fan, thus lifting or lowering the blue styrofoam ball. The game is not new; it was released in the fall of 2009. Mindflex retailed it for between 60 and 120 USD.

The game was not available outside the USA.

Scientists have questioned whether the toy actually measures brain waves or just randomly moves the ball, exploiting the well-known illusion of control from our everyday life. A fusion, I would answer – in the style of Miles Davis.

This aspect is of no importance to me. What really disturbs me is that while your children are studying English to prosper one day, their children will actually play with practices and techniques of interaction between thought and what is happening.

This already brings the play out of the everyday understanding and the sense of design.

I know, my colleagues would be wondering what this topic is doing here. Well, the reason is that it comes to 3D modelling.