Attention young Jedi

Toy trains 'Star Wars' fans to use The Force

Could The Force be with you? A toy due in stores this fall will let you test and hone your Jedi-like abilities.

The Force Trainer (expected to be priced at $90 to $100) comes with a headset that uses brain waves to
allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and
Luke Skywalker's abilities in the Star Wars films.

No, you're not tapping into some "all-powerful force controlling everything," as Han Solo said in the movies.
But you are reaching out with mind power via one of the first mass-market brain-to-computer products.
"It's been a fantasy everyone has had, using The Force," says Howard Roffman, president of Lucas Licensing.

Mind-control games may be the coming thing: Mattel plans to demonstrate a Mind Flex game (also due this fall),
which uses brain-wave activity to move a ball through a tabletop obstacle course, at the Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas on Thursday.

In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in a simplified version of EEG medical tests,
and the circuitry translates it to physical action. If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like
a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower.



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"It's been a fantasy everyone has had, using The Force," says Howard Roffman, president of Lucas Licensing.

FANTASY! What HERESY is THIS!??