pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/tech/" rel="tag"Tech/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lifestyle/" rel="tag"Lifestyle/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-bmi-wheelchair/2114222/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/88736050_opt.jpg" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallToyota Brain Machine Interface Wheelchair - Click above for high-res image gallery/small/strong/embr //div br /You shouldn't need Professor X-style telekinetic powers to move a wheelchair using only your mind, at least not according to Toyota. The World's Largest Automaker is busily developing its Brain Machine Interface, which uses thought-control and brain wave analysis technologies in an attempt the make life better for elderly or handicapped people.br /br /A series of electrodes are attached to the scalp and measure the brain activities associated with certain thoughts. The BMI then displays those signals on an attached screen and can create a set of instructions that may be useful in all kinds of scenarios, including to move an electric wheelchair.br /br /According to Toyota, the company's BMI technology has advanced to the point where it's practically instantaneous (the delay is just 125 milliseconds), is 95-percent accurate and will adapt itself to any user's thought patterns. Next logical question: How long until our cars come sans pedals and steering wheels? emThanks for the tip, FaLeX/em!br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-bmi-wheelchair/"Toyota BMI Wheelchair/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-bmi-wheelchair/2114222/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/88736030_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-bmi-wheelchair/2114221/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/88736036_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-bmi-wheelchair/2114220/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/88736050_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-bmi-wheelchair/2114219/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/88736054_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-bmi-wheelchair/2114218/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/88736058_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sci-tech/09-toyota-develops-wheelchair-steered-by-thought-szh--01"Dawn.com/a | Photo by YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/29/brain-power-toyota-develops-thought-controlled-wheelchair/"Brain Power: Toyota develops thought-controlled wheelchair/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:28:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sci-tech/09-toyota-develops-wheelchair-steered-by-thought-szh--01Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/29/brain-power-toyota-develops-thought-controlled-wheelchair/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19081340/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/29/brain-power-toyota-develops-thought-controlled-wheelchair/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDP_zW1a1UYl36NNDc4-ILVdRFU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDP_zW1a1UYl36NNDc4-ILVdRFU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDP_zW1a1UYl36NNDc4-ILVdRFU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDP_zW1a1UYl36NNDc4-ILVdRFU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=ahCzlSHdbg4:OfQ7I9C2h4M:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=ahCzlSHdbg4:OfQ7I9C2h4M:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=ahCzlSHdbg4:OfQ7I9C2h4M:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=ahCzlSHdbg4:OfQ7I9C2h4M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/ahCzlSHdbg4" height="1" width="1"/

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