Re EEG

[Paul Perry]

At 08:50 AM 10/09/98 +0200, Dr. Jörg Schmitz wrote:
>Please, be careful with DIY-EEG (and ECG and EMG too) !!!!!!!!!!!
>
Stelarc, the Australian performance artist, has various myoelectric
and blood flow sensors attached to link to MIDI and analog sound 
generators etc, also (what is much more dangerous) some electrodes designed
to contract muscles to cause his body to be moved involuntarily by 
external commands. On one occasion in Canada he found himself in a 
kind of feedback loop & his frantic waving by his 'free' hand was
interpreted as a desire for 'more volume'! But, he survived...

>Building a system used by the NASA and AirForce, to fly an aircraft
>only by thinking will cost you a lot lot lot of money. Then it will
>work.
....I think, it STILL will not work... ;-)

paul perry melbourne australia