> How about the tongue? admitedly, electricity is a problem, but a touch > sensative pad on the roof of your mouth would make a very ergonomic input > device. Admittedly, this would take some work, and you would have to have > some power source inside your mouth, but with a good PAN (personal area > network) you could do it. > > Don't laugh, its not impossible to imagine. :) Yea, so long as you dont mind formating your HD everytime you say "supercalafragilisticepialidoshious" The tounge has to touch different parts of the inside of your mouth on a very regular basis, and then there is the fact that there are mucus produsing glands and stimulus zones above the tongue. I would tend to steer away fom this as a method. If wet wear is your game, look towards nearve neetles. NASA is running some experiments where, in the course of the experiment, it must measure signals sent to neaves. There are thousands of nearves that could be used as inputs w/o interupting your normal activities. Then, there is the learning curver to get your brain to send a signal to those neaves, like a child discovering his toes for the first time, but this is not as difficult as it sounds. Thsi methos is much prefered over the EM skin work, and most other biofeedback methods. Useing biofeedback for input is more complex in practive then in a lab. I recommend against this direction. Ever seen how the body changes on hot/cold days, walking/running/sitting, calm/angry/fearful? try sweaty, or excited. Nope, while i might put togeather some monitoring tools to see these very affects, I'll stick to motor nearves and eye tracking when it comes to wet-works (until we can strengthen so brain-to-computer devices)
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