Goodbye gamer thumbs? Someday that could be more reality than fiction. The start of this could be companies like Neurosky that are marketing a “cost effective bio sensor and signal processing system for the consumer market.”

A man dressed as Darth Vader from the “Star Wars” film series demonstrated the NeuroSky invention on Thursday by turning his toy light saber on and off at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco without pushing a button.

“It’s like the Force,” he said, referring to the film premise that unseen energy could be tapped and channeled by the mind.

The Nintendo Wii has enjoyed success by providing a unique controller design (the Wiimote) which can be used in many different ways to control gameplay, so the timing of a mind control controller could be coming to a game system in the next couple years. These types of controllers and games have seemed more like gimmicks to date, I suspect a future where we control devices with our minds is not that far fetched.

How about moving your mouse with your mind? Forget voice-activated commands — most haven’t worked that great to date anyway — how about mind activated commands? Launch Firefox. Delete spam. Or perhaps for the Twitter denizens: I’m thinking about doing a search on Google.

Humor aside, this could lead to a whole different kind of computing. The evolution of many technology innovations begins with pleasure activities. People seem most interested in using for entertainment purposes first. After or along with games will be more er adult uses and then it will move into the mainstream technology sector.

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