Imagine: Real-life Jedi: Pushing the limits of mind control - Katia Moskvitch, BBC News

Imagine the simulations, the educational gaming environments, the virtual immersion opportunities these technologies will enable. The inner workings of the brain can now be read using low cost hardware. You don't have to be a Jedi to make things move with your mind. Granted, we may not be able to lift a spaceship out of a swamp like Yoda does in The Empire Strikes Back, but it is possible to steer a model car, drive a wheelchair and control a robotic exoskeleton with just your thoughts. Some ideas, some technologies may sound like science fiction, but they are fast becoming science fact. In our eight-part series we will be exploring ideas that are the future of technology.