Costume News Archive - 30-Apr-2007

  • New toys read brain waves (Sharewatch)
    But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It's a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.


  • SJ Toymaker Uses Brain Wave-Reading Technology (CBS 5 Bay Area)
    A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It's a prototype of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology. Engineers at NeuroSky Inc. have big plans for brain wave-reading toys and video games.


  • Prototype Toy Reads Brain's Electrical Signal (10 News San Diego)
    SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A convincing twin of Darth Vader is stalking the cubicles of a Silicon Valley office complete with black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume -- it's a prototype of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.


  • Next-generation toys read brain waves, may help kids focus (The Journal News)
    A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It's a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.


  • What they didn't teach in med school (Boston Globe)
    Remember one of the indignities of childhood, wetting your pants? It happens to almost everyone. In my case, I remember a rainy Halloween afternoon. I was in kindergarten. After a candy-filled afternoon parading around the school grounds in my hobo costume along with fairies, witches, and ghosts, I missed the school bus. Forced to walk home with schoolmates who lived ...


  • Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Costume Sells for $21,500 to Hard Rock (Bloomberg.com)
    April 27 (Bloomberg) -- David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust costume was bought yesterday for 10,800 pounds ($21,500) by Hard Rock Cafe, the world's biggest collector and exhibitor of rock memorabilia.


  • Playing mind games (The Springfield News-Leader)
    San Jose, Calif. -- A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It's a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology. Behind the mask is a sensor that touches the user's forehead and reads the brain's electrical ...


  • Johnson City teacher suspended for asking girl to pose in mermaid costume (Kingsport Times-News)
    An Indian Trail Middle School music teacher recently was suspended from duty after a female student reported that he asked her to pose in a mermaid costume for a photograph when they were alone together in his classroom.


  • Video game controllers use brain waves (The News Journal)
    SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with black mask and light saber. But this is no Halloween costume. It's a prototype of a toy that reads brain waves.


  • Brain reading toys bring light sabres to life (The West Australian)
    A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume.


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