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# Interaxon’s brainwave-powered games realize Atari’s forgotten dream.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/interaxons-brainwave-powered-games-realize-ataris/
- Published: 2011-05-24T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:53:48.000Z
- Description: Remember the Atari Mindlink? You probably don’t. It was an unreleased 1984 controller which promised hands-free, brain-powered gameplay. Now welcome to the future, where Toronto’s Interaxon has developed a series of crazily sophisticated brainwave-powered games which help people relax and focus thei
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Remember the [Atari Mindlink](http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink.html?ref=killscreen.com)? You probably don’t. It was an unreleased 1984 controller which promised hands-free, brain-powered gameplay. Now welcome to the future, where Toronto’s Interaxon has developed a series of crazily sophisticated brainwave-powered games which help people relax and focus their minds:

> *Interaxon, which specializes in “thought-controlled computing,” has created games that train the brain to switch between producing alpha waves, linked to relaxation, and beta waves, linked to focusing.*   
>  
> *A gamer wears a headband with sensors that contacts his or her forehead and tries to relax or focus on demand.*

What’s more: Interaxon’s CEO Ariel Garten and child psychiatrist Dr. Umesh Jain are researching the use of Interaxon games as treatment for ADD.

–*Lana Polansky*

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