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It seems as though mind control will be the fad for toys in 2009, much like mild electric shocks were on those laser shooter/thumb-wars/pass-the-parcel games a couple of years ago. CES revealed a rather interesting new device from Mattel that used the power of your mind to move a ball around a maze and now US designer Uncle Milton (of Uncle Milton’s Toys) is doing something similar. This one seems to have been marketed slightly better as it plays on the old Star Wars gig, therefore requiring you to ‘use the force’ to raise a ping-pong ball up a tube by spinning a fan with your mind. As before it works based on how hard you can concentrate and though the action seems quite short-lived, we’d imagine there’s a bit of fun to be had in trying to distract the Jedi while he’s at work. The Force trainer will be available later this year for $100 but there’s no confirmation that it’ll be released in the UK, which is annoying as we’re itching to give one of these a go. - Paul Lester [TheRegister] toy neuroscience mind control

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