Artist Creates a "Factory of the Future" With Machines Controlled by Brain Waves

When you sign up to labor in the "Mental Work" factory, you're equipped with a brain-scanning headset and taught how to use it. The headset uses standard EEG electrodes to record your brainwaves, and the associated software can pick out specific patterns. The factory overseer explains that this brain-computer interface has been programmed to respond to a neural pattern that occurs when you imagine squeezing a ball in your hand. Then you're introduced to the machines you'll be controlling. They are things of beauty, made of lightweight aluminum and finished in chrome.