Mindflex™ Games from Mattel combines your own thought with their technology to make a small foam ball move on air. The game measures your brainwave activity via a light weight headset with sensors for your forehead and ear lobes. When you are concentrate on moving the ball, your brain wave activity is increased, telling the toy to increase the air flow, lifting the ball as can be seen in the video below.

While you might think that technology like this would surface in commercial applications before the toy market, it’s not all that surprising. Many of the coolest technologies have emerged embedded in toys, and for that reason, many of those toys are bought up by people like me who like to hack it into other stuff. For now, we’ll have to wait because it’s not available until this Fall. In the mean time, though, you can get a sneak peek at New York’s Toy Fair 2009 next week and at the web site, you can sign up to find out more when they have updates ready.

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