MindDrive: Thought-Controlled 90s OC Gaming - LGR Oddware
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2014
- Overview and demonstration of the Mind Drive by The Other 90% Technologies Inc. Control DOS PC games with your brainwaves!! Or just reach into the vegetable drawer instead.
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_And if anyone thinks the tomato was being affecting by my hand: _*_NOPE!_*
The metal contacts are only on the inside of the sensor, not the outside. My hand wasn't touching anything but the plastic casing while the tomato was on there, and the tomato was held in place by a velcro strap. I was only holding it up so it'd be in the video frame, but before I was testing with it just sitting on a wooden table and it got the same result!
Got the idea from The New York Times, where they reviewed the MindDrive using a grape and a wet paper towel: www.nytimes.com/1996/10/01/science/mind-control-for-pc-s-i-think-not.html
Any chance we'll see a battle of the minds between your bowling scores and the scores of the tomato?
maybe your brainwaves where being transmitted to the device through the tomato....
no i don't really believe that ether
Lazy Game Reviews Thanks for making me famous!
Since you were holding the device with the tomato on top, you were affecting the tomato by subtle direction changes in your hand. The tomato might have acted as an amplifier of your brain waves.
If this proves true Attack of the Killer Tomatoes may soon be a actual threat!
The world's first tomato assisted speedrun
The true TAS.
Just think about being at the end. Boom
“Hi, my name’s tomatoanus...”
Tomato Gaming would be impressed.
XD
I wonder if the Tomato will start it's own TH-cam Channel.
I can see it now...Lazy Tomato Reviews...
OK Android 18...we'll just let you go on about looking creepy while you sit there...lookin creepy yourself...
"LGR's Tomato Gaming"
mmm
edgarschainsaw They did a couple documentaries about the tomatoes attacking humanity. Luckily, we killed them with a recording of Puberty Love.
edgarschainsaw Cool Avatar! Love penny Wise.
Technically, if you use your mouse and keyboard to play games, you're already using mind-controlled devices, since your mind is controlling your hands.
i.imgur.com/SLAuKbB.jpg
There are respected theories of consciousness in the cognitive science community that state that external objects such as a mouse and keyboard, should be considered extensions of actual conscious experience. As in the peripherals are actually as good as part of your mind if you're using them, so there's that too.
Cribnoob mouses and keyboards are virtual reality. you move a mouse and it moves the cursor. you press a button on a keyboard and it types a letter.
Lol
Cribnoob lol
Did... did you eat it? The tomato? The intelligent tomato?
Well of course not. It does pay rent though.
LGR said in the comments he ate the tomato. Did it make him smarter ?
He must C O N S U M E it, and assimilate it's intelligence.
The tomato needed to evolve. He didn't eat the tomato, it encapsulated itself inside of him
lololololololololooololol xD
Someone needs to decompile those executables and see what's actually in them. I bet all it does is check if your finger is in or not; the game plays itself.
There are far too many micros in the finger thing to just be sensing resistance or capacitance.
As others have said, it's probably not a complete scam. It probably measures *something*, but that data is complete garbage and mostly random. The games likely have a bit of auto-steering or help just so it's not totally random and worthless, but who knows.
I'm willing to take a look at it if someone can fwd me a working copy.
Nah decompiling was a thing back then too and I think that the devs wouldn't just use a pseudo-randomizer while discarding sensory input altogether. I'm willing to bet it just detects a slight change in whatever it detects and then randomizes the result (maybe that's why the tongue result looked different)
@@Loneeeey Knowing Clint he probably uploaded them to Archive.org
When you attached it to the tomato... I lost it. So good. Great video, just like all the rest of your videos.
Thanks XD
@@LGR Attach it to a mushroom next !!
They should have called their company 'Placebo-soft'.
Well they were called the Other 90%, which of course is a giant myth about only using 10 percent of our brains.
That's basically Apple
I recall that there is a also a recent product called brain mouse that kind of worked better and you could play unreal tournament with it? Could google it, but i am to lazy lool
Never Never Mind
The first person to invent a 'Placebo-hard' will become a billionaire!
So this is basically a mood ring for over $100 while awful video games play in the background?
ProbeVoyages yes, exactly
And it doesn't change color
@@nytrodioxide Well it DOES change colour. On the creen...
"I have no mind, and I must drive" -- Tomato
I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with a pulsing black finger thing filled with outdated tech where my tomato brain used to be.
This made my day
Just be wary of them gaining consciousness, and becoming the killer tomatoes - just ask George Clooney.
@@12ealDealOfficial 1 year too late. But damn that's a good line from a good Ellison story.
hmm yes
sentient tomato goes to 711
this thing looks like something Scientologists would sell to people
Behold tomatology
The E-meter actually uses similair 'science'
Sign the papers, Sign the papers, Sign the papers, Sign the papers, *Gets shot in the head*
Absolutely. I'm creeped out now.
This post has been removed by the Church of Scientology. Please report to the nearest secret Dianetics center for reeducation immediately.
HOLY CRAP FINALLY SOMEONE FOUND THIS THING
I remember playing this in a computer store sometime in the 1990s, with a skiing game. But I could never remember what the name of the product was, and literally every time I've ever told someone I played a mind-controlled skiing game at a computer store in the '90s they've looked at me like I was crazy. Honestly I began to wonder if I was just misremembering the whole thing or maybe even dreaming. Thank you for confirming that I'm not actually crazy.
From what I remember it actually worked reasonably well for the few minutes I tried it. The tutorial said to relax, and to think 'left brain thoughts' to move right, and think 'right brain thoughts' to move left. I was able to actually do it kinda.
So you do maths in your head to move one way and think about art to go the other way?!
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@@em84c hahaha yes I think that's what I actually did at first... then it became more a matter of focus and it just kinda happened
@@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg So what your saying is, this thing actually does work it just depends on the person?
@@ryandevan2793 To be honest I dunno. I was a kid and maybe the game was just fooling me. But I do remember it working for a while.
I played this years ago when they were showing it off at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London. I never knew it was actually released though.
But the game I played was teaching you to relax, where you played as a fish and the more you relaxed the more it evolved, (turning into an angel at the end) I only ever got as far as a salamander :(
That's actually a concept that has been evolved further, and they even made a competitive game out of it (the one who is the best at relaxing wins). Several different versions of it exists, that you attach to different parts of your body. They even have some at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.
AFnord . I played the competitive version at Wonderworks in Pigeon Forge TN. I played two matches against a couple family members and won in dominating fashion.
Marty Moose Can anyone remember what that relaxation fish-to-angel game was called?
Larry Bundy Jr i have anxiety. i never got beyond fish
Neat, cool to know.
I can just imagine being some 12 year old kid who has to choose whether or not he wants the MindDrive or the Nintendo 64 for Christmas, because his parents couldn't afford both. Then his parents decide on the MindDrive...
exiledPostman Yeah and then you'd have the kid (like Clint in the video) sitting completely comatose in a chair playing Mind Skiing and being a social outcast for the rest of his life. All because the parents chose the MindDrive over dah Nintendo SIXTY FOUR!
NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOUUURRRR OH MY GODDDDDDD!!!!!
Whenever you mentioned the US government in this video, I kept being reminded of that scene from the movie The Men Who Stare At Goats -- where the two Army officers talk about how the KGB heard about the American attempt to communicate psychically with a stranded nuclear sub (something that didn't happen) so the KGB began Psy research because they thought the US was doing Psy research, so now the US had to do Psy research to prevent a "paranormal research gap."
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Your scepticism influenced the results. Don't you know how pseudo-science works?!?
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I blame the Illuminati !!!
The idea is actually valid and can be used. You can order modern versions and have limited success. It is a hobby item, but if you were paralyzed, it would actually be useful for moving a curser and clicking.
He had his tongue in the wrong position. You can nullify it that way.
I'd love to see "LGR Plays" episode where you pit a cherry tomato, a potato and a carrot against one another in these MindDrive games.
MJ1284 DO THIS. NOW.
PLEEEEEASE I NEED THIS
Wire up the Tomato to a game of Pokémon, and stream it live to Twitch!
YES.
TAS -> Tomato assisted speedrun
+Tony Ookami 😹
Tomato plays Pokemon
8 months late, but I really want to see this. I would subscribe to that tomato.
Galvanic skin response?
Grandiose promises of societal advancement?
Insisting that it's the customer's fault if it doesn't work?
Intelligent tomatoes?
This is a repackaged Scientology E-meter, isn't it?
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Well I don’t think it is, this is probably just a coincidence, GSR itself is a concept that goes back quite far in history being discovered in 1849, 103 years before Scientology was even created and I actually can believe this concept was used for useful things.
I imagine that if this was to come out today it would be on Kickstarter.
Damn, that joke hit hard!
The cherry tomatoes have become SENTIENT! EVERYONE RUN!
@sofias. orange:
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It just a capacitive touch sensor.
Attack of the Killer Cherry Sized Tomatoes doesn't have the same terrifying effect that the original film had. Of course, perhaps back in the 50s they would still not have an evolved enough horror genre and it would scare someone back then.
@ΤΑΣΕΙΣ ΑΥΤΟΚΤΟΝΙΑΣ:
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" If you want to talk to tomatoes..."
That dystopian comparison was spot on, this seems like what video games would look like in 1984.
Duarte Martinho probably "big brother simulator"
When you've asked "Why stop there?" after sticking it on your tongue, I was alarmed for a second 0_O'
I thought he was gonna put it on his junk lmao!!
Why do I have a feeling Ron (creator of Minddrive) was a scientologist? "Your fault if it doesn't work", it looks like a simpler version of an E-meter, mind controlling... Someone was either really into CIA things, or just nuts like a scientologist :-)
P.S.: Ron was also the middle name of Lafayette Ron Hubbard... Coincidence? ;-)
so thats what the l stands for!
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@@steveclem7873 jesse what the fuck are you talking about
It’s possible, but somehow I doubt it
It doesn't surprise me that it worked on a tomato. After all, this technology was originally developed to defeat the reds.
BorgdaaStorrz4jamTartsKnavesSince?
They should've had a game called Mindsweeper. Geddit?!
You think up, down, left, or right to control a pointer and when you want to click it, you think "MINE"
@@DrayCrouse finally a video game for seagulls
Literally
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!
This is the equivalent of homeopathy for nerds.
hahahaha
OarNewKillaMuzroomzFireelHippybaztardz?
That cherry tomato is good. I've seen other small vegetables playing games but never like this lol
Next up, Tomato Plays Pokemon.
why are you watching my mentally disabled sister play games
Veggietales bowling?
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I would like to see this hooked up to a PC where it can read the raw serial input to see if any data is actually coming from the device or not.
EcoGreenKeeFee?
TFW a cherry tomato is a better gamer than you.
...or LGR was way too drunk / high... :D
fuckwad
Think was a quote from Orphues?
I can’t believe you have this on here! When I was a child my class went to a local university to a science exhibit showing off cool tech and experiments. They had this on display with the skiing game and I remember as a child even thinking, “I’m not actually controlling this”. I’ve talked to people about this and asked if they remember it and they though I was crazy. I now have the proof it exists.
On another note at the same event they had this new crazy tech called the DVD playing space jam. My mind was blown.
I bet that cherry tomato has a better GPA than me
ARENA64 nice meme
i desperately wanna see your full youtube name. i was hoping a reply would @ your name, but it didn’t rip
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@@loganiushere doing the lord’s work, TheMiningTeam
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Oh man I remember playing with one of these in a Compusa store when it first came out ... played the skiing game and even as a young kid found myself disappointed in this lol.
That has to be the oddest oddware that I've ever seen. Are we sure that this wasn't funded by Scientologists?
NaarsLocalLaundret
There is a rare game for this that was never advertised. You use your mind to develop a political ideology for your country. It was called Mind Kampf.
MrDrokkul I did nazi that coming
EmployeeJoe630 xD good one. not original but good.
did the game involve gas?
Tacticaldifficulties ofc
best joke year 34 of the Phanerozoic eon
Scientific minds think alike. I came to the same conclusion that you did at the end of this video. Galvanic skin response sensors are just measuring how conductive your skin is to electricity and after that it's all (weak) interpretive theory regarding how to actually translate that information into anything useful.
your quip about the inner child wanting to believe in magic really hit the nail on the head, I wanted this to work too - even though I knew it was too simple to ever work.
Oh and good spot on that worm 'training' program. That is the real turning point in thinking when it's so clearly programmed in a way to make you think you're almost getting it, then losing it, then you have it for a little while! They put so much effort into this deception it's very disappointing. But a great bit of history to own :)
big fan
edit: I just read your linked NYTimes article and that is brutal, they tore them apart haha.
You know, a choose your own adventure movie theater sounds like a phenomenal idea! Why HAVEN'T we come up with that yet?
because of Twats!
At futuroscope in the 90s, the had paddles that a camera would sense and allow audience style games and basic forms of interaction to be fed back to one of the screens, but to be honest while the make a picture or shape games where fun for a bit. the film choice thing was like a really bad 90s FMV game that made dragons lair seem like a Tolkienesque epic
Why bother with mind control on a digital choice when you could have analogue tactile sensors in the seat arms, meh there is no need, want a personal experience, play a game, want a collective one see a movie.
You've seen Twitch Plays Pokemon, right? That's why...
It exists/existed. I think Chuckles worked on such a system once.
Its called heavy rain and beyond two souls and those were both terrible
There actually were a few films just like that, e.g. Cech "Kinoautomat" from 1967.
''Tomato plays'' sounds like a hip new gaming channel.
Tomato Mind Gaming ! :P
*****
What?
I feel like you could make a really good satire channel where you look at a tomato "play" various horror games. It even has face cam so you can see the shocked look on the tomato's face when it gets hit by a jump scare.
plot twist: it was a motion sensor reciving the small left/right oscillations that you made unconsciously, that would explain the tomato working, and the bowling too since you would do small unconcious movements
I think that's probably that... but the data is probably randomized or corrected at the end
Aw man, i had heard someone mention that Hypnospace Outlaw's HypnOS might have been inspired by this and i got really intrigued. Now that I know its just a glorified pulse oximeter that turns on guidance for whatever object is meant to move. I wasnt expecting or wanting a headband that runs using your mind while you sleep, but this is a massive dissappointment. Thank you for the video though, had no idea this existed, you did a great job presenting it.
I knew a comment would have existed, sorted by new, and found a hypnospace comment bwl.
@@vanjavicko20 just did the exact same thing
I love the idea that one of the first things you would want to do if you attained mind control capabilities is bowling.
Mind Bowling, now that's mind blowing!
4 years later I'm back and wow how you have evolved, obviously been watching for a while. congratulations on your amazing success
epic man. you need more views! been binging your videos for weeks. love it.
I, for one, welcome our new tomato overlords.
Really don't hook your phone into it! That's how the alien mindcontrol gets you!
don't worry, I have the Neural Dampening gene mod >_
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Oh good! I'm glad the community was on top of that.
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This is very 90s new age.
I remember this being at a computer fair I attended with my father as a kid. I specifically remember them showing the mindskier game. There have been many occasions in the last 20 years where I recollected bits of that memory here and there, but I always thought it was the "WINSKI" game that was controlled by this. This was really cool to see, since it sortof confirmed a memory I had from when I was 6 years old.
National Geographic here.
We would be interested on featuring any of those cherry tomatoes in your fridge, on the cover of our award winning magazine.
We will also feature an incredibly detailed article about their life from plant to fridge and their inevitable murder.
Much0zdoomingnusAmigos
the fuck would American scientists have been doing in fucking Siberia during the cold war?
Why is THIS particular episode so funny? Dude, seriously, you had me rolling with the dry humor in this one. I've watched my share of your videos and I don't think you will ever top this.
Yes! I was almost convinced I'd imagined this thing! I remember playing with MindSkier at a Babbages WAAAAY back in the day. It was horrible, but I remember it almost working!
OowIsay are there still on the 423rd row near KayRotsPoliDizkoreebz? (HuhBabbagesImean..
It would be awesome if you did an episode of LGR Plays with MindSki competing against the tomato.
I think your Mum said it's time for bed as merry go round woodENweAllAkFooFooVunknownTeeChezTosobilHavs? PolPotMAP?
What about the 10% technology that wasn't the other technology?
I never get sick of watching this channel!!!
Thanks for posting Clint, you are awesome:)
Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying!
I distinctly remember using something very similar to this from the early or mid-2000s. The product was designed essentially the same, something you clip your finger into, and it came with a game which I think was meant to help people deal with anxiety, depression, emotional instability, among other issues. Much like with the MindDrive, you play the game by using the "power of your mind" to feel a certain way, thus (I guess) manipulating your body temperature, electrical impulses, and heart rate, to accomplish various tasks. My mom bought for me when I was like 14-16, and I only played it a tiny bit because I kept getting lost and thus bored of it rather quickly, even though it mostly worked ok.
Edit: The game is called Journey to the Wild Divine. It's actually a series with several titles including The Passage, Wisdom Quest, and Healing Rhythms. I think the one I played was the Passage, but I'm not entirely certain.
This is the funniest video I've ever watched. Thanks for brightening a terrible day for me.
Good God man don't let the scientologists see this! L Ron Hubbard was pretty famous for trying to do e-meter readings on fruit and veggies. Most famously a tomato! Google LRH reading tomato for the famous picture.
LordrsShez heJuzBrewzMoonshyz?
I've discovered this channel in 2018 and I have to say it's awesome.
This is the funniest video I've seen in a while. I literally LOL'd at work. (slow day) I LOVE this channel! Basically the only channel I watch on youtube.
There are technologies that do use thought to control stuff with your mind, but they require being wired up with lots of electrical sensors placed all over your head.
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Send it back to it's makers and ask them to hook it up to their cars then drive.
fir3w0rx Productions near a cliff
They'll be sent back to their Maker.
Thank you for this video! You just validated a childhood memory I had that this "mind-reading" technology existed back in the '90s. 😅 In my city, we had the computer equivalent of Discovery Zone at a place called CyberPlay; and this was one of the featured technologies. I couldn't believe how futuristic it seemed at the time. ☺️
I had an OCZ NIA (Neural Interface Actuator or some crap) anyway... It really worked! It was so weird too because all those movies where a person is trying to learn to use mind powers they are right. You couldn't force it to do what you wanted. You had to relax and want it to happen.
I stuck around just for the cool T-shirt!
daggereall
@kevnar:
Haha that _is_ a very cool t-shirt: _The Elder Scrolls, Chapter II: Daggerfall_ www.mobygames.com/game/elder-scrolls-chapter-ii-daggerfall
Same 😂😂😂
would be interesting to take the circuitry to someone who knows about it and see what they actually put in it
How dare you sir repeat your burkes loom bay gools?
This was the most hilarious video of yours, thanks for the excellent nerdy entertainment. Salutes from Medellin, Colombia.
Man, I've always been curious about this thing, I'm so glad you looked into it. Hilarious too.
Everytime you said a word that began with "Mind", all I could think of was Joel from Vinesauce screaming "MIND BULLETS?!"
IT'S A NUCLEAR CAT
That's telekinesis kyle!
All of this is just mind-boggling! Also at 9:26 we can see the Flappy Mind Bird Worm. :)
This is very reminiscent of Hypnospace Outlaw. I think I'm starting to get what went into that game.
wow... I've never laughed at one of your videos so much... and I get a chuckle out of each one of your videos I watch... I've seen my own fair share of oddware over the years as well
Awesome Daggerfall shirt.
I can read LGR's mind through the screen:
4:15 He thinks of the "didn't mind" joke.
You're a champion and you make high-quality videos. Keep it up.
I saw the Star Trek Elite Force in the background and I knew I would stay on your channel.
Thanks, Clint, for adding me on Google Plus. You're a nice guy, you know that?
No problem, I try :)
Lazy Game Reviews Add me? ;-)
I will sell my soul to you LGR if you tell me where you grabbed that fabulous Daggerfall shirt.
I got it from Bethesda, naturally.
+Lazy Game Reviews Now that you have two human souls, what do you plan to do with them?
Nice, you got the official Lego Back To The Future kit! And when you were talking about the "dystopian future of some kind", it reminded me of the Star Trek The Next Generation episode with the mind controlled video game that was hypnotizing the entire crew.
I had one of these in '97 and I remember it working quite well, just took some practice to get used to it.
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New subscriber and low-key blown away that you are as young as you are. Expected a waaaaaaaay older dude
You have an awesome voice. Its excellent for narration.
thank god you didn't stick any other "fingers" in that thing :P
Lucas Cunha Rocha Oh you mean a penis! I see.
@@fatherfintanstack8810 would be interesting to try a porn game with it
Oh I see what you did there 😀
does this work in windows calibration? what it kinda looks like is that it has two contact pads that probably read how much of your finger is over the area i.e. two axes that adjust an analogue number value the more your finger contacts the pad. Kind of like on the original xbox there was a feature on the controller where it knew if you pressed the button down some or all of the way. While this wasn't used much it's a near essential feature in Metal Gear Solid 2. I bet if you try configuring it in windows it shows up as two analogue axes with numbers that increase the more of your finger is on the pad
My favorite thought-controlled game is MindCraft.
very nice demonstration! subscribing!
Didn't l ron hubbard do something similar with tomatoes?
I've always been confused with the legality of releasing things such as this or the power glove for example. How do you define that the game or device "works"?
HOLY CRAP HE WAS SO YOUNG. I mean he isn't crazy old now (2019) but he's definitely matured.
I was thinking I didn't realise he was so young! But I just realised this video is from 5 years ago. 😆
*The force is strong with this one!*
150$ for this? Well, rich people wouldn't really *mind* the price.
hehehehehehehehehehehehe
+Pigfaced
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You should be ashamed of yourself. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
Tickets available for your show ?
the iPhone is more expensive and what?
I dont know whether Im glad or disappointed you didnt go with a certain obvious part when using it on other parts of the body
Too big to fit into the finger sensor!
Ha! I've been trying to remember what this thing was called for awhile. I played around with one of these using the skiing game in a store back in the late 90s. After about 5 min of trying to figure out how to "think directions", I started to feel like it was reading left/right- similar to bowling for you. It did feel like it was working a bit. I was always curious to know more about it because it was gone the next time I went to that store.
TLC274AC Precision Amplifiers i don't trust make so much, but maybe to detect if anything is touching the plates or bot, well maybe yes.
9:28: In Vietnam, they call that 'Flippy Bird'.
Are you telling me that tomatoes have a conscience? >:/
Vegans btfo
Bro this has become my favorite channel Lmao I usually hate commentary, but yours is hilarious Lmao "a lot of mind names, I guess they didn't mind" lmfao
You blew my mind again in 2019!!