Emerging Technologies: Brain-Controlled RC Quadcopter...?

Brain-Controlled Quadcopter Drone Takes Flight in China

I've always said that I despise any type of wireless controlled devices. The response time is not as fast when compared to wired devices. For example when playing a video game, you are using a wired controller and all of sudden you die due to response timing between the controller and the console. Whereas if you used a wired controller, there wouldn't have been an issue due to the connection is traveling through wires and not air. When a wireless connection is achieved, the particles in the air help transfer the connection to the console. However, you have to realize that you might have wood, metal, or anything else in the console's WIFI adapter to pick up on the signal. This tremendously slows down the response of an action to perform from what was inputted in the controller. Surface area increases this response time and connection speed.

However, what if you did both? At Zhejiang University, a group of students created a brain-controlled quad-copter drone. This increases the surface area of the controller's input senses; but in relation, it also increases the response time between the human mind to the action a person wants to perform. Let's say you blink (which sometimes is an involuntary movement), you don't think about it; but the brainwave to perform that action still occurs. For how fast a blink action is, you can imagine how fast the brainwave to make that sequence performs. Thus with a controller taking responses from brainwaves, you have drastically increased response time. 

References:

1.     http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/zhejiang-university-china-brain-controlled-quadcopter/

Cody Bennett     9/08/2013