On Christmas 2010, we saw Mindflex™ advertised on TV. Mindflex is a table top game that consists on a headset that reads your brainwave activity. The objective of the game is to move a light foam ball around an obstacle course. When you concentrate, the ball rises on a cushion of air, and when you relax the ball descends.

The objective is to navigate the ball through a mind-bending obstacle course as quickly as you can. Once we played around with it for a while we couldn’t resist thinking ways to hack it. We came up with many ideas crazy involving electric shocks, moving radio controlled toy cars, shifting lights, screen based apps…