Mindflex Game
Product Description
Amazon.com Review
Mindflex--featuring a headset that reads your brain waves and a levitating foam ball--is the kind of game that must be seen to be believed. Recommended for players aged eight and older, the game begins when you strap on the headset so you can use your powers of concentration to move the ball around the game console and through a mind-bending obstacle course. A dial-in console lets you to keep the ball lifted on a cushion of air, but raising and lowering the ball must be accomplished by alternating concentrating and relaxing your mind.Headset Measures your Brain Waves
Tired of games that depend on the roll of a die or lucky draw? With the help of advanced technology, Mindflex introduces a whole new way to play--by using the power of your mind!
You'll feel like a character in a science fiction movie as you strap on the headset, connect the clips to your ear lobes, and align the metal forehead sensor just above your left eyebrow. But even this strange accessory won't prepare you for the sight of a foam ball quivering five inches above the game console!
Skeptics will be quick to point out that the console's moveable fan nozzle holds the ball aloft on a cushion of air. However, as players learn to alternately focus and relax their minds, the ball will respond by rising and falling. An instruction manual provides various concentration and relaxation techniques to try such as math problems or visualization and practice exercises.
Once you feel like you've mastered the art of telekinesis, you can test your mental acuity with five challenging games designed for groups of one to four players. Use the game console to select your game, set the difficulty level, and track your scores.
Design a Mind-Bending Obstacle Course
A variety of hoops, hurdles, funnels, and a teeter-totter can be positioned however you choose on the game console. Players use their minds to move the ball under, over, or through the obstacles. Several games test speed, while another challenges players to lift a ball up and through a funnel, shooting it across the game console to score points.
While Mindflex's advanced technology is sure to intrigue, mastering the games may prove difficult for some. Because concentration techniques will vary from person to person, the game rewards patience and a willingness to experiment. Fans of mazes and brain teasers will appreciate the mental challenge, and creative types will like designing the obstacle courses.
Mindflex's game console requires four "C" batteries (not included), and the headset requires three "AAA" batteries (not included). The four foam balls should be handled with care to keep their ability to levitate. Fortunately, the game console features an inner compartment for safe ball storage.
What's in the Box
Game console, headset, four foam balls, and various obstacles. (Batteries not included.)
Product Description
A lightweight headset containing sensors for the forehead and earlobes measures your brainwave activity. When you focus your concentration, a small foam ball will rise on a gentle stream of air. Relax your thoughts and the ball will descend. By using a combination of physical and mental coordination, you must then guide the ball through a customizable obstacle course–the various obstacles can be repositioned into many different configurations. Mindflex™ combines advanced technology with the power of thought to create an interactive experience unlike any other– a game where players compete in the ultimate mental marathon!For ages 8 and up.
Requires 4 "C" and 2 "AAA' batteries.
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The Good: Adults and kids guide a foam ball through obstacles using the power of their minds.
The Challenging: Players unable to perceive a relationship between their minds and the ball's height may grow impatient.
In a Nutshell: Foam ball really does rise and fall, and choice of games and obstacle courses provides hours of amusement.
Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 15.8 x 6 x 10.5 inches ; 4.4 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
- ASIN: B001UEUHCG
- Item model number: P2639
- Our recommended age: 8 years and up
- Manufacturer recommended age: 8 - 15 years
- Batteries: 4 C batteries required.
- Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1 in Toys & Games !!!!
- Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
Customer Reviews: Mindflex Game
If you know the premise of the toy, skip to the second paragraph. This toy takes a measure of brain activity in the left frontal lobe and, based on the amount of activity there, sends power to a fan (high power when high; low or off when low). This raises a foam ball in the air and a dial can be turned with the hands to move the ball through an obstacle course that arrange with detachable pieces.
I read the other reviews. They make some good points. This toy could get boring fast. The headset does get uncomfortable after about 10 minutes. The guy who said that all it does is measure stress is way off-base. He is right that the ear clips are used to complete a circuit, but that is not all this toy does. After playing it for awhile, I can say it responds negatively to stress (i.e., the ball lowers and the fan turns off). I'm basing that off of the fact the fan tended to turn off when I would get worried about it turning off. If it was responding to stress, the power should have increased.
So why am I recommending this toy? Because studies have shown that if you can increase frontal lobe activity through exercises like this, you can increase objective measures of concentration (e.g., amount of time engaged with a task) and decrease measures of impulsivity. And not just for the task where the skill was trained. So a child who got adept at playing this game should also pay better attention in school, likely increase their reading comprehension, do better on homework, etc.
My recommendation is that, if this is something that is interesting to you, you buy this toy for your child and that you play it with them. Set performance goals with them and give them some sort of reward for meeting and exceeding those goals. Start small. At first, get a stopwatch and see how long they can keep the ball in the air. After that, see if they can start to raise and lower the ball a couple of times, then see how many times they can pass it through one of the hoops. And take data the whole time. Chart their data in some way so they can see the progress they are making.
But get this toy!!! In labs where they do this sort of therapy, children with ADHD have shown serious improvement in functioning. Some kids are able to get off meds altogether.
If you want to do a little extra research before purchasing, go to wikipedia and search neurofeedback. There's a good synopsis there with links to some peer-reviewed research at the bottom.
Scott Herbst, Ph.D. (in behavioral psychology)
By Scott A. Herbst
I bought this as a Christmas present for my husband who is quadriplegic from a Brain Stem Stroke. He loves it. While I have to rotate the fan under the ball to move it around the board. He can move the ball up and down quicker and more accurately than the rest of us . Ie. family and friends, from 4 yrs to 68 yrs. So he can maneuver it through the obstacles faster and win the game. ( some games are timed with the game keeping track of players 1-4's time and announcing the winner).
My husband is finally able to join in the fun and really excel at something.
Caregivers, et al, have noticed my husband responding verbally more after playing this game. (He is usually mute, but has been saying yes and no, and other responses occasionally) . He is obviously making gains therapeutically that he hasn't in many years. Seems like new connections or brain pathways are being formed, and/ or neurons are firing better...great for his attention deficit too!
Back to the fun.... My 68 yr old Mother really enjoyed it , 4 yr old nephew could play, with a little help, 32yr old caregiver loves to play , but I think my 17 yr old nephew may love it most, besides my husband and I. I am thrilled!
It was another big hit at our New Years Eve Party. With everyone waiting for their chance to play. I have even taken it to therapy and now we are planning on having Mind Flex tournaments.
I think this game was WAY worth the price. But I will be happy when the price comes down because I want to purchase more to share.
Btw, buy it! Read the directions before you play and practice moving the ball with your mind. It makes all the difference in understanding how the game works.
Excellent invention! I just hope there are more games using EEG technology to com
By PamR
purchased the Mindflex Game by Mattel and the Star Wars Force Trainer by Uncle Milton...from Amazon, of course. I gave them to my "grown" son to share with his friends after I tried them out. These are great conversation pieces, ice-breakers, and just plain fun with a group of friends (the right group, of course). Both games work well and as described. I found the Force Trainer to be an excellent place to learn the basics and the Mindflex great for some variety. Adults may have just as much fun (perhaps more) as the kids. I bought another Mindflex to keep for myself.
By B. Cox
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