MindFlix lets you control Netflix with your thoughts

Remember the days when you actually had to get up and manually change the TV channel?

Yeah, me neither. But I do know that remote controls revolutionized TV watching. And now Netflix enigineers have developed a way to ensure that TV viewers don't even have to lift a remote control anymore by creating a headband that lets you navigate Netflix with your brain. But how does it work?

In IT Blogwatch, we think about it.

So what exactly is going on? Tyler Lee has the background:

The folks at Netflix have an annual “Hack Day” in which employees...come up with all kinds of wacky ideas. For example we saw the creation of a VR video store back in 2016...This year we are looking at mind control.
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Netflix employees...have put together something called MindFlix...this is a Muse EEG-detecting headband that is worn on the person’s head, and...whenever the person moves their head up or down or side to side, it will let them control Netflix’s interface.

That sounds like a lazy person's dream come true. But how does it work? Hugh Langley explains:

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