Admittedly, we love crazy technology. Apart from the recent developments and announcements with cameras that track a player's full-body movements with Microsoft's Project Natal (so far with iffy results), Sony's camera meets baton-based motion controller and Nintendo's fun-for-all Wii Remote, we'll admit that little else has really been done beyond the reuse of cameras and visual tracking systems.

Toyota Motor Corp. said in a release Monday it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. (AP Photo/Riken)

While we're still anxiously awaiting the PlayStation X that comes with a nanotech-enabled brain stem stimulation unit with .002 millisecond response speed, it appears that the gearheads at Toyota are getting closer to our controller-free reality by developing a Brain Machine Interface (BMI) that boasts a mere 125 millisecond delay, roughly 95% accurate.

Games are an obvious reach for the gaming audience but Toyota developed the tech to allow wheelchair users a faster way to operation their chairs if they didn't have the use of their hands or wanted to drive hands-free. Users would don a skullcap that would place electrodes on their head that interprets their thoughts into commands for the wheelchair.

Via: Autoblog