MindFlix project lets you control Netflix with your brain

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by Sindy Cator on January 30, 2017 at 9:32 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

In the future, you might be able to control Netflix with your brain. It sounds like sci-fi, but the company is actually testing such a feature right now. As part of its recurring ‘Hack Day’ events, Netflix asks its product team to go crazy with experimenting on new technologies. One of the craziest to come out of the event last week was MindFlix – a way to navigate and control Netflix using your mind. Using a Muse headband that detects EEG (Electroencephalography) waves, you can move your head around to scroll around the UI, and then literally just think of the word…