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gadgetreview.com - 1/6/2009

Mattel’s Mind Flex Game Removes The Game Pad In Favor Of Brain Scanning

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The days of mind control are upon us, albeit in games. Mattel’s latest, the Mind Flex game, tests a user’s concentration by challenging them to place a ball through a number of hoops. Sounds simple, right? Actually, there is no game pads, just a brain scanning device. The ...

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earthtimes.org - 1/9/2009

Gameloft Partners With Mattel to Launch UNO(TM) Across Multiple Platforms

— earthtimes.org — Gameloft Draws a Wild Card, Skips, Reverses and Shouts UNO! to Win and Develop This Popular Title NEW YORK, January 8 NEW YORK , January 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones and ... (more) Gameloft Partners With Mattel to Launch UNO(TM) Across ...

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ubergizmo.com - 1/6/2009

MindFlex Game by Mattel

— ubergizmo.com — [CES 2009] To complete the trend of product trying to use the human-brain interface, Mattel is coming to CES with this game that requires to wear a headset full of sensors measuring the user's brainwave activity. Using mental concentration, the ... (more) MindFlex Game by Mattel

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crunchgear.com - 1/9/2009

Hands on with Mattel’s weird Mindflex Game

— crunchgear.com — Now here’s something that will end up at the bottom of the toybox next Christmas. The Mindflex lets you control a floating ball around a little obstacle course. Air bumps and pops the ball through hoops and tubes and ends up frustrating ... (more) Hands on with Mattel’s weird Mindflex Game

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Mattel's Mind Flex teaches kids fake telepathy
Engadget — ... the hoops. Sure, it's not nearly as complex as what the other two are proposing, but we could totally see ourselves wearing this headset all day while we work -- just to find out how much brain power we're really using. It's expected to hit US retail channels later this year for $80, and if we may be so candid, our only wish is that the headset was small enough to hide under a hat. You know, so we could fool our family members into thinking we had superpowers. Via Gadget Review; Thanks, Christen] Filed under: CES, Gaming Mattel's Mind ...

Mind Flex: Like Basketball, FOR YOUR BRAIN [Games]
Gizmodo — ... a mousetrap-like board. If the user can concentrate hard enough, they can activate a fan that will push a ball through a series of hoops. So the end product, on sale later this year for $80, is really taking a simple technological concept (brain activity) and skinning it with a complicated-looking function (fans, balls, hoops, circles of fire, etc). But much like a similar game called Brainball, it's still probably a parlor trick that excites a crowd. [Telegraph via gadgetreview] ...