Kid Plays Space Invaders With Brain

A team at Washington University in St. Louis conducted an experiment wherein a teenage boy with epilepsy played Space Invaders using only the signals from his brain to control the game.

"He cleared out the whole level one basically on brain control," said Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D., an assistant professor of neurological surgery at the School of Medicine. "He learned almost instantaneously. We then gave him a more challenging version in two-dimensions and he mastered two levels there playing only with his imagination."