The Winter Olympics in Vancouver are fast approaching and InteraXon, a Toronto based company, has been hired to help bring the rest of Canada into the spirit. 
InteraXon has developed its own consumer grade electroencephalograph (EEG) brain to computer interface and has been searching for applications where it can be useful. So, in the traditional Olympic spirit of national pride and technological gimmickry, the Ontario Ministry of Tourism asked the firm to control the light on three major landmarks in the province using pure thought from a group of people streaming from the West.
The Globe and Mail explains in an article from last week:
When visitors to the Ontario Pavilion next month put on the headphone-like brainwave sensors, their mental activity will be communicated to control systems that light up each of the sites. Slow your mind and the lights dim as the brain starts producing lower-frequency alpha waves. Higher-frequency beta waves of an alert mind make the lights come to life – comet trails stream down the shaft of the CN Tower; backlit Niagara Falls starts to glow in shades of purple and red; Parliament Hill springs out of the shadows.
Here’s an interview with COO of InteraXon on Canada’s Business News Network:
More at Globe and Mail…
Link: InteraXon…