Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool They have the neatest gizmo at the Science Center here. You put a band around your head and face off with a partner. There's a ball in a long clear tube on the table between you and to begin with the ball is in the center of the tube. The deal is that both try to relax as much as possible and the bands around your head read your brain waves. If your brainwaves are lower than your opponent's the ball moves in their direction and vice versa. When the ball makes it all the way to one end of the tube, the game's over. They've also got a real-time graph of each player's brain waves so you can see what your brain was doing while you were trying to relax. I was there with a friend and he kicked my ass in the first go -round but it was nearly a tie, although he did beat me in the end, in the second. |