Negomimi: Mind-Controlled Cat Ears

[LesTalk]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

This is a tremendous invention....My only worry about mind-controlled cat's ears is that anybody who forks out their hard-earned yen to get a set may be lacking the facilities to operate them.

[plaid_knight]

The video is cute but they need the scarf to offset them properly. Personally I'd rather have built-in bluetooth and usb ports than nekomimi.

[Coligny]

This is a tremendous invention....My only worry about mind-controlled cat's ears is that anybody who forks out their hard-earned yen to get a set may be lacking the facilities to operate them.

Bad luck people who designed this don't have a fucking clue on how real cats communicate with their ears... At home "cat ears going down"= "somebody is going to die soon... and in a painfull way..."

[matsuki]

....and furry porn lovers heads explode. Want to take bets on how quickly these make their way into JAV?

[Taro Toporific]

Here's a new prototype “Shippo” (’tail’ in Japanese) from the same company, neurowear, that brought you the Necomimi.
The Shippo is a brain-wave controlled tail that moves with your mood.

Relaxed mood– Moving Soft-n-Slow
Concentrated [sic] mood–Moving Hard-n-Fast

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Here's a new prototype “Shippo” (’tail’ in Japanese) from the same company, neurowear, that brought you the Necomimi.
The Shippo is a brain-wave controlled tail that moves with your mood.

Relaxed mood– Moving Soft-n-Slow
Concentrated [sic] mood–Moving Hard-n-Fast

shippo_ani.gif

Prior Art

japanese-cats-ears-for-comm.jpg

japanese-cats-ears-communic.jpg

I already have one of those fucking things dangling between my legs. I discovered decades ago that it has a mind of its own and it causes me nothing but trouble. (Mind you, I should point out that mine's not as big or hairy as the one in the video.)

[matsuki]

I already have one of those fucking things dangling between my legs. I discovered decades ago that it has a mind of its own and it causes me nothing but trouble. (Mind you, I should point out that mine's not as big or hairy as the one in the video.)

Mine controls my mind, not the other way around...but it definitely will let you know my mood

[GomiGirl]

Furries...

[Taro Toporific]

Japan Toy Maker to Introduce ‘Mind-Reading’ Gadget
Japan Real Time – Wall Street Journal blog | 2014/10/02
…Japan’s Tomy Co. may help bring a person’s hidden feelings to the surface, or at least allow party-goers to play at doing so…
…the company said this week it would release on Oct. 30 the Mind Scanner, a gadget attached to the head that can be used to determine a person’s emotional state by monitoring his or her pulse with infrared light.
More…

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[Taro Toporific]

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Researchers use artificial tail to study how we adapt to brain-machine interfaces
Robohub | 2015-Apr-13
Researchers from the Keio Institue of Pure and Applied Sciences (KiPAS) are working to reveal the mechanism by which newly acquired knowledge and information is transmitted and evolves among organisms with intelligence. This research is being done through pseudo-augmentation of body structures using a brain-machine interface, to investigate the process by which groups of individuals adapt to novel bodies and environments, using methods from the natural sciences.
Junichi Ushiba and Giulia Cisotto explain their work:
“Originally, I was very interested in the fact that we ourselves evolved from monkeys. The form of a body changes gradually through the process of evolution – for example, having a tail or not having a tail – and species that survive are using that specially evolved body effectively. Thinking about what this implies, even if a body changes, unless the brain that controls the body has the ability to adapt to the change, then naturally, an organism can’t utilize the adaptation effectively like the rest of its body. So, I think that one important keyword Concept in evolution is that the brain itself actually has the ability to adapt flexibly to external objects even more than we think it does. That’s precisely why I think there may be a process where a part of the body that has suddenly changed is incorporated, as if it was a part of the organism’s body, and the organism adapts and evolves accordingly. I wondered if this kind of process couldn’t actually be verified using methods from the natural sciences, and that was the motivation for this research.”
The method used in this research is to observe, in the laboratory, a group of about ten people who have an artificial tail, which can drive a brain-machine interface, attached to their body. Participants learn how to move the artificial tail, and attempt to use it skillfully, like their own body, through trial and error. They also share the ways in which they’ve learned to use the brain-machine interface with other people.
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[Coligny]

Tssss Japan: it's called a boner....

[Taro Toporific]

“Shippo” (’tail’ in Japanese) from the same company, neurowear, that brought you the Necomimi.
The Shippo is a brain-wave controlled tail that moves with your mood.

しっぽがほしい！(WE WANT TAIL! ) In this case, we really want a Qoobo, a headless, tail-wagging "therapy" robocat, right?