Mind. Blown. Brain-controlled drone race pushes future tech

Wearing black headsets with tentacle-like sensors stretched over their foreheads, the competitors stare at cubes floating on computer screens as their small white drones prepare for takeoff. Some struggle to move even a few feet, while others zip confidently across the finish line. Competitors in the Florida race use specially programmed headbands to monitor their brainwaves - moving the drone when they will it to happen. The EEG headset is calibrated to identify the electrical activity associated with particular thoughts in each wearer's brain -- recording, for example, where neurons fire when the wearer imagines pushing a chair across the floor. Programmers write code to translate these'imaginary motion' signals into commands that computers send to the drones.