I was flipping through a T3 magazine yesterday and there was an interesting article about a mind-control headset being featured with the Nintendo Wii 2. And while the consensus on the web is that although Nintendo is not said to be actually developing this headset for the next-generation Wii (these pics are artist renditions), the technology for this already exists.

The idea is that the frontal lobes will sense your brain waves, which can then make a ball or character move on the screen. The remote would feature only one button, and you’d have to “think” — and send to the remote — what action you want the button to carry out, whether it’s jump, kick, punch or whatever.

The magazine suggests that 2010 is around the time that technology like this could hit the gaming world. And while I’d be shocked if Nintendo made a leap like this for its next console, it got me thinking — would we be ready for something like this?

Here’s a slightly more suggestive picture of the artist-rendered Wii-mote.