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    Brain waves detected through your fingers? I really doubt that this can work... Commented Nov 11, 2017 at 6:24
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    The interface I remember was a finger shaped groove with a small ball or bump at the end (maybe like a modern trackball sensor) where your fingertip would rest. While navigating the slalom, you would subconsciously move your finger, and the sensor would pick up those tiny movements and move the skier in that direction. It was a gimmick. Commented Nov 11, 2017 at 6:27
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    @traal That's what I think, too, but it drives me mad that I can't pinpoint this device. It's been like half a lifetime ago, and I swear this thing existed, but it's harder to find than anything I've ever had to Google (and that's a LOT), so I was hoping someone here might know something about this rare, hard-to-find hardware. Commented Nov 11, 2017 at 6:44
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    I feel like I saw a report on TV once of a mind-controlled skiing game. I've no recollection of it being finger-powered. But that will have been in the UK so I guess they must have made some sort of greater PR effort than just throwing it into US shop displays. Commented Nov 11, 2017 at 19:41
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    There were kits for addons to the BBC Micro in the mid '80s that read skin resistance and allegedly allowed you to control the machine if you had software to make sense of the inputs. As you might expect, they never caught on. Commented Nov 12, 2017 at 11:16