Comments on: A stylish new brain-sensing headband

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:51:06 +0000

You know, Epoc Emotiv headset is an awful device. Poor quality – it’s plastic body cracks and sensors oxidize very quikly. I’m glad for the girl but can you give us a video with her achievements in neurogaming and neurocontrolling. If it would be so easy to control computer with Emotiv Epoc headset the company has far from a 40000 amont of sold headsets from the beginig of it’s history. The quantity of sensors don’t play a great role – it is a fallacy came from traditional medicine EEG measurments.

By: Roslyn McCoy

Roslyn McCoy — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:54:48 +0000

For little more than two years I have been using the Emotiv Epoc headset with a young woman who was in a car accident at the age of 17. With this neural interface she can now play video games and have the beginnings of controlling a computer. I really like this even though it has four sensors because it’s something she could wear for many hours. She has been in a semi-vegetative state for over 12 years now. Giving her even two switches would give her control over her environment. 45 to 50% of people in semi-vegetative state are really conscious and their.

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:56:27 +0000

Don’t be hopeful about device. Because It will not give us the true controlling of computers. We need to control computer with our brainwaves but this device have no such a feature. It will catch facial expressions, it will be not a true brainwaves. What functions are avaliable now – concentration meditation linked to what. It is only two commands. And what about 4 commands, 6 commands, what about true controlling of computer devices. Very many doubts about muse what it really could do.

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:42:30 +0000

There is no PURE EEG DATA, because there many artifacts on the area of sensors placed on

By: cartesio

cartesio — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:33:12 +0000

No more hacking the NeuroSky chip included in the Mind-Flex!, this BCI-EGG of InteraXon seems very interesting, in addition, APIs and Tools for developing look open enough and reasonably priced.

By: Bernard Denis

Bernard Denis — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:40:04 +0000

Another article in this issue talks about biofeedback training for the brain, with this equipment people will be able to train on their own. We believe that introducing Binaural Beats to the process will greatly improve performances. We will be conducting many crowd research on the subject and provide open access to results in an anonymous maner. Much to be discovered in near future.

By: Eve

Eve — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:54:38 +0000

If you get any technical specs, I hope you will be allowed to share them through your blog. I went through their official webpage but I could not find some info that you mention in your article, e.g. the operating hours of the battery. So a technical document would be very useful to have all this info gathered there.

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:51:11 +0000

It will be interesting to read about your experiences with it (I assume you’ll be writing a review?) What will you be hoping to get from such a device?

Sorry to be nosey. :)

By: rick

rick — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:34:36 +0000

It looks like the technical hurdles are steadily coming down. Perhaps the key word now is “stylish”. For most of us, this will first be a replacement for keyboards, mice, touchscreens, etc., especially in places or situations where those are impractical. But wide-spread adoption will depend on coming up with designs that are as unobtrusive and/or stylish as any other fashion accessory.

By: TechNUT

TechNUT — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:01:06 +0000

This news caused a measurable response in my EEG.

But the question remains: who needs this?

MEEE!!!! X-D 8-D X-D :-D

By: bausleyfreddy

bausleyfreddy — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:39:15 +0000

what does it do?

By: eldras

eldras — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:14:29 +0000

This is likely to be highly specific and the only mobile internet device you need.

We have imagination caused by brain signals internally and this can be simulated in time from headband devices in a healthy way.

Curious to see whether wearables or cyborg stuff evolves faster?

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:59:46 +0000

“article on brain waves.” Good idea. We’ll work on that.

By: Bri

Bri — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:54:16 +0000

I wish there was an article on the whole system. What brain waves are being used to do what. How selective of your though processes thes can be. I don’t doubt that as time goes by, these will become very sensitive to brain activity. I would like to have a greater understanding of what activities it is monitoring.

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:12:18 +0000

Yes, that appears to be the case; I’m expecting InteraXon to respond to my request for full technical specs by tomorrow.

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:01:06 +0000

Having just read the article PROPERLY, I know see this is purely EEG data from all four sensors. The potential applications are endless. I’m looking forward to future reports on this.

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:43:17 +0000

Like raised blood pressure in patients having their blood pressure tested? Not sure that would be applicable with something you wear and forget.

I’m more interested in the four sensors, and the information they gather. I guess we’ll have to wait for a week to find out.

By: Vin

Vin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:57:22 +0000

Typically, when people know they are being filmed or photographed, there’s usually an element of self-conciousness, so I’m wondering if this will be similar and skew the results beyond compensation.

By: advancedatheist

advancedatheist — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:34:34 +0000

Wow. An early version of the neural-interface headbands used by the characters in Vernor Vinge’s “Marooned in Realtime”?