The helo I fly via conventional remote control unit already crashes all the time. If I were to impose my brainwaves unfiltered on that poor machine, I suspect it would just explode mid-flight.
This thing was on the new show 'American Makers.' The Neurosky sensor in use doesn't allow for much more than getting the unit to hover based on the EEG reading.
After the initial wow factor of using your first EEG sensor, the limitations quickly start to add up: you are left with nothing more than a ball that can move up and down based on how furrowed your brow is. It looks like they added an accelerometer to the headset too, but it's still severely constrained in what you can do with it.
We're not at the point where "brain controlled" helicopters are a reality for the consumer set. You can't throw this on and think "go higher" and "strafe left while decreasing altitude" and I fear that level of expectation will drive many impulse buys to be returns.
