Just when you thought Newsnight couldn't get any weirder than featuring a garbling Cookie Monster, this happens.
Even though it was a virtual strawberry, the sight of a man in a headset concentrating on making it explode was still rather offbeat for the current affairs program.
Incredible.
Variations of the technology have been around for a couple of years now but the latest version is billed as the "first wearable brainwave control device".
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They can read neural activity using sensors attached directly to the skin.
As demonstrated the headset can give you a degree of control over digital images and games - but blowing up real fruit remains some way off.