We've sent the full version of the article below to Laurent. Anybody else want it, send a MIN_wav. ---------- [Excerpts] Financial Times, September 27, 1995 When it's all in the mind At the department of medical informatics at Graz University of Technology in Austria, Gert Pfurtscheller is working on a project that could result in thought-controlled devices. Stephen Roberts, a researcher at the electrical and electronics engineering department at Imperial College London, has worked with Pfurtscheller's team. He hopes to improve the signal classification accuracy by using artificial neural networks, computer-based systems designed to mimic the way the human brain works. Roberts's work is part of an EU research programme called Anndee (Artificial Neural Networks for Diagnosis and Enhancement of EEG) which involves around 30 researchers in a dozen European universities. The Consciousness Research laboratory at the University of Nevada is pursing a more controversial line of research into psychic phenomena or, as its director, Dean Radin, prefers to call it, Direct Man/Machine Interaction (DMMI). A number of Japanese companies including NEC and Matsushita, have also conducted research into DMMI. Radin believes that in 20 to 50 years' time, it will be possible to use DMMI to operate devices. The technology company The Other 90 Per Cent, based in Sausalito, California, has developed MindDrive, a computer games system whose programs are controlled by thought. MindDrive is designed to work with most IBM-compatible personal computers. A console, which analyses the user's brain waves, plugs into the back of the computer. Users wear a sensor sleeve over their index finger. At present, the system can only be used to move a cursor up and down. MindDrive will be on sale in the US early next year. The console will cost between $100 (65 pounds) to $200, and MindDrive games some of which will enable users to create music or draw on a computer screen by thought, will cost around $30 to $40 each.