There’s been a fair few ‘mind-controlled computer’ stories in the last year or so. This latest one is unique in that it features the first teenaged test subject; the young epileptic has a hardwired grid of electrodes in his brain that gather data in realtime as his brain functions, in the hope of finding the area where his seizures were triggered from. Somewhat of bored for waiting for an opportune seizure for them to measure, they reprogrammed a computer to run simple Space Invaders-style computer games and got the kid to play them using just his thoughts for triggering the controls. Odds on, he’ll soon be clamouring for an upgrade to full World of Warcraft access…