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Brendan Walker builds rollercoasters for the future. A theme-park consultant and designer, Walker's Thrill Laboratory -- a side project of his company, Aerial -- takes scream-inducing to new heights. "We're looking at where the technology will go in 20 or 30 years, when we'll have the potential to adapt rides in real time," says Walker. At FutureFest, in London's Vinopolis on March 14, Thrill will debut Neurosis, an experience controlled by the rider's brainwaves. Don an Oculus Rift and an Emotiv EEG headset, clamber into a motion simulator, and your virtual ordeal will change in real-time based on 14 data channels. "It's playing with that line between pleasure and panic," says Walker. Just don't think about falling off.
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