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Play Basketball - with your thoughts! Spies your environment with the Spyball, and then let the seal robots reeducate! How mistaken technology toys really can be: ONLINE blogs shows the curiosity cabinet of the high-tech show CES.

 

On the edge of the high-tech CES show, in a somewhat isolated hall behind the Venetian casino, is a paradise for children playing hide. This is only a few known and many unknown companies ice machines, massage mice - and totally absurd, but entertaining toys for small or large children.

A mass of people pushing at the entrance of the hall to the state of Barbie, Mattel Group. Old ladies, young bloggers with tattooed forearms and sellers with rolled up shirt sleeves are queuing up to the new Mattel game Mindflex try? a kind of mini-Baketball by thoughts control.

Pseude-telekinesis by EEG and airflow

After 40 minutes I'm waiting on it: a headband with two brain power sensors for the temples of the head, two clips to the earlobe. The thing attaches? Mattel says it? Elektroenzephalografie by the theta waves in the head surface.

The more you concentrate, the higher the ball round the pitch, which is anstarrt. This obstacle course, so round and big as a soup plate, has the exceeds a Ventiltor. The blow on the side air high-Tischtenniball what the big foam ball can ascend.

In theory works this way: If you are heavily concentrated, the fan blow stronger, the ball can rise higher. In practice, it takes a few minutes settling time before something happens. Rigid, concentrate, floating ball imagine - the Mattel employees mutters: "focus the ball, concentrate on yourself, like in Star Wars."

And then let's start: The flow is better, the ball rising. Too high! "Relax, breathe through," advises the toy expert. It works - the ball drops something.

It is on the round rings and playing all kinds of tubes up by the ball or hindurchfliegt rolls. In order to move it side by very thoughtless of a button turns the air output of the fan moves.

A totally new gaming experience? the only question is whether Mindflex to maintain permanent and you really enjoy that stuff, the foam ball on the race via thought control and to send it with your friends to be measured. That could very well be. In the United States wants Mattel Mindflex slightly from September for $ 80 sale, in Germany until 2010.

Spy ball, USB Panda and the iPhone trash - more toys from the CES-curiosity cabinet you see in the photo gallery.