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Learn Jedi Mind Control With New Brainwave Neurofeedback Powered Toy -- Featured Video

Link for this Post: Save Over Half Off on Star Wars the Force Jedi Mind Control Game at Amazon

This is the first of two posts I'm going to do about this EEG toy which has been a big hit for gifts to kid this Holiday Season.

Here is an excerpt from a USA Today feature about the new device>:

". . . the headset . . . uses brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and Luke Skywalker's abilities in the Star Wars films. No, you're not tapping into some "all-powerful force controlling everything," as Han Solo said in the movies. But you are reaching out with mind power via one of the first mass-market brain-to-computer products. "It's been a fantasy everyone has had, using The Force," says Howard Roffman, president of Lucas Licensing. In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in a simplified version of EEG medical tests, and the circuitry translates it to physical action.

If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower. A state of deep concentration is needed to achieve a Force-full effect. "When you concentrate, it activates the training remote," says Frank Adler of toymaker Uncle Milton Industries, which is creating the Trainer. "There is a flow of air that will move the (ball). You can actually feel like you are in a zone.

The second post will have a variety of resources about what has been written by others as well as my own take on this "Jedi powers" training toy.

Note: image is from USA Today article

NovaMind 5 New Version of the Venerable Mind Mapping Software for Windows and Macintosh -- YouTube Video

Link for this post: NovaMind v5 Mind Mapping Software for Windows and Mac

NovaMind Mind Mapping Software for Windows and Macintosh came out in its first version back in 2002 but until now has not received the attention of programs like Mindjet's MindManager or Tony Buzan's iMind Map.

I say "until now" because I believe that NovaMind in its new Version 5 is will now be ranked in the top tier of software programs in the mind mapping genre .. and it may be heading for the Number 1 position.

NovaMind gets a major makeover in its new version  -- with new features designed to address some of the shortcomings suffered by other programs in this category. 

YouTube Video -- DriveSharp Posit Science's New Brain Enhancment Driving Software on Fox News --

Links for this Post: Fox Science News YouTube Video Embedded below and DriveSharp Driver's Brain Training Program -- Windows and Mac

In the next post, I take a look at the new brain training program by Posit Science that promises to make help create a world filled with better drivers (it cannot happen too fastt for me).

You can find out a a lot more about the science behind the program in the news segment that follows:

Deepak Chopra Video on the Wisdom Quest Biofeedback Computer Game

Links for this Post: Wild Divine Website and video embedded below:

Above is a new video by noted personal development author Deepak Chopra about the personal growth path presented in the Wisdom Quest Biofeedback Computer Game. In it, he explains what the different stages of the game signify from the standpoint of a traditional eastern spiritual enlightenment metaphor.