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Brain-controlled wheelchair rolls out
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border: none;" cite="http://www.star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/6/30/technology/20090630111421&sec=technology"><P>Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analysing brain waves, it said in a release on Monday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/6/30/technology/20090630111421&sec=technology"><P>Previous systems required several seconds to read brain waves but the new technology requires only 125 milliseconds — or 125 thousandths of a second.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; 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