EEG Sensors Used To Detect Matching Brainwaves
PSFK was able to attend the recent Dorkbot NYC meetup of creative people “doing strange things with electricity”, which featured an exhibition of the Mental Block project. Using NeuroSky EEG sensors hacked from a $75 Star Wars toy, the Mental Block team has constructed helmets for use by pairs of participants. Each helmet reads the concentration-level brain waves of the wearer, adjusting the position of a gradient polarized filter. If the brainwaves of the two participants match the filters align such that each participant can see the other’s face, but if the wavelengths are conflicted the other’s face is obscured.
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Kyle Studstill is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. Kyle works as a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK. His background is in analysis, from the analysis of cultural and technological change, to analysis of consumer and human insight, to military intelligence analysis with the US Intelligence and Security Command. Kyle loves the future, much like O'Brien from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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| TOPICS: | Advertising, Branding & Marketing |
| TAGS: | dorkbot, EEG, Neurosky, sensors |
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