It might be an easy trick for a Jedi warrior – take a sphere and make it rise up from the ground with just a single thought. But it's not so simple in the real world, or at least, it wasn't.

At this year’s Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai, Emotiv are displaying their new lightweight plastic headset that can read the electrical impulses from the brain though the scalp, record them on a computer and then configure the thought patterns into instructions for a small drone.

This means that using brain waves alone, it is now possible to activate a drone and send it flying through the air. You imagine the drone taking off and it obeys.

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