SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Grant Skinner's colorgasm Flash visualization may lead to gratuitous brain stimulation and an infectious head-bob.

I saw this sweet hack on Hack-a-day where this guy jacks into a MindFlex game and sends the EEG data to a processing app. It's not medical grade by a long-shot... no big.

I looked over at the game closet and thought that if I didn't trash the headset my wife wouldn't skin me alive. Hmm....

I followed the instructions outlined in the hack and within a couple hours finished the sketch, soldering, and had the MindFlex headset pumping data into SQL Server. That was the point I broke into a cold sweat - how and with what awesome tool should I visualize the data?

I opened Flash Builder and in about 2 minutes and ~50 lines of code had a rough chart up and running. Just when I thought I was out of harms way - my wife poked me in the back and said, "you feeling lucky punk?" My chest tightened and my limbs went numb. Lucky for me she was in a good mood; penance came at the cost of putting the kids to bed.

After all our little sugar-plumbs were in la-la land... it was time to scientifically prove my long standing theory. Muwhahahahhaaa!

Flash provides a solid foundation to build rich and engaging experiences.

There was no question what content to use in the experiment - Grant Skinner's colorgasm and "kitten and his box."

The video is comprised of two segments of about 20 seconds each. I simply focused on the video clip during each to see what affect they would have on my brain waves. So... it's not surprising. The Flash visualization produced a significant amount of stimulation on most of the measured wavelengths. The kitten clip... made me sleepy.