Why Lawyers Fail at Yoda-Like Telekinesis Game
Star Wars buffs will get a chance to practice their Yoda-like telekinesis skills when new mind-over-matter toys come to stores this fall.
Mattel and Uncle Milton Industries are releasing games that levitate ping-pong balls with brain power, the Washington Post reports. The toys detect users’ brain waves with a wand on their foreheads, translate the electrical activity into a signal understood by a computer, and use the information to power a fan that lifts a ping-pong ball in a tube, the story says. The cost ranges from $80 to $130.
But lawyers may want to save their money.
“The question everyone has about these gizmos is whether they are parlor tricks like Magic 8 Balls or Ouija boards,” the story says. Johnny Liu of NeuroSky, the company that is licensing the technology to the toymakers, refutes the suggestion with this bit of evidence: Lawyers and other multitaskers tend to have a terrible time focusing their brain waves—and are worse at controlling the ping-pong balls, he says.
Copy editors and tech employees, on the other hand, have greater abilities, according to the Post’s unscientific testing.