Use Your Brain to Control a Mobile Phone Game?

Yet another reason why you should not use your cellphone while attempting to operate a motor vehicle.

afaict these games demand a bit more than your average attention... not good for any kind of multitasking - I'm not sure why you would put it on a mobile phone, since it's pretty well assumed the mobile is because you are on the go and busy with other things...!

It's the same principle as the old 'biofeedback' idea - by seeing what effects you produce, you can train yourself to produce the brainwave necessary to control the game. There may be other benefits to understanding and being able to control your brain electrical activity, besides the entertainment value. At least, that was the biofeedback claim. You can control your blood pressure or your heart rate, for example. Not a bad idea, really, if it works.

I'm not sure why you would put it on a mobile phone

Most people have a mobile phone, and China would be a huge market for this sort of thing because the mobile phone gaming industry is huge there. I saw an interesting documentary on China that showed people going to internet cafes and logging in to the web using desktop computers to play online cell phone games using cellphone emulation software (they even have MMORPGs on cell phones).

Cell phones are the future now of both mobile communications and mobile gaming. Even I can play snakes on my cellphone (and it is about 10 years old)!