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NeuroSky, Inc. is the world leader in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technologies for consumer product applications.[1][2][3][4] It was founded in 2004 and is a Silicon Valley based company.[1][2][4] The company claims that their mission is to make BCI technology available to any industry. NeuroSky adapts electroencephalography (EEG) and (since the release of blink in 2010) EMG technology to fit a consumer market within a number of fields such as entertainment (toys and games), education, automotive, health and wellness.[5][6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Through the development of inexpensive dry sensors (traditional EEGs require the application of a conductive gel between the sensors and the head), built in electrical “noise” reduction software/hardware,[2][6][11] and a focus on providing an embedded (chip level) solution for signal processing and output, NeuroSky technology allows for research and products that would have been impossible with traditional EEGs.[12][13][14]
While NeuroSky develops some products independently, such as the MindSet and the MindWave, it primarily works with industry partners, developers, and research institutions to assist them in taking advantage of the NeuroSky chip and incorporate it into their own technology/products.[1][2] The company compares it’s style of business to Intel Inside’s which “sells the ingredients for a cool technology but doesn’t sell the final product to consumers. When NeuroSky has released direct to consumer products they tend to be designed for maximum flexibility of use through third party and open source content".[15] [16]
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A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. BCIs are often aimed at assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.
Research on BCIs began in the 1970s at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA.[1][2] The papers published after this research also mark the first appearance of the expression brain–computer interface in scientific literature.
The field of BCI research and development has since focused primarily on neuroprosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing, sight and movement. Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of the brain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, be handled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels.[3] Following years of animal experimentation, the first neuroprosthetic devices implanted in humans appeared in the mid-nineties.
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the exponential uptake of intelligence could be brought about by a connectivity and enhancement of minds through networks and technology.
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Through a century of experimentation, neuroscience experts have determined where specific activity occurs within the brain. Motor control of limbs occurs in the top of the brain, for example. Vision is processed in the back of the brain.
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Like little waves combining to create big waves in the ocean, as thousands of neurons fire, the little waves come together to create the larger waves knows as brain waves. It is these dominant brainwaves that are measured by NeuroSky devices.
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As a person tries to produce the brainwaves required to control a NeuroSky device, the neurons involved in the thought of a particular mental state are frequently active at the same time as the neurons that produce that mental state itself. This strengthens the connections between these groups of neurons
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The idea of BCI has captured the public imagination for a century; Baby Boomers grew up with the Six Million Dollar Man, a television series featuring a man outfitted with neural prosthesis after an injury. As early as 1908, Le Nyctalope, arguably the first super hero, was also the first BCI described in literature (sporting an artificial heart.)
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BCI is no longer relegated to fiction, in fact research into the subject has flourished throughout the last decade in which humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents have directly communicated with electrical devices through neural activity (Ganguly and Carmen, 2009; Stieglitz 2009).
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Working with Neurosky headsets (see the cool technology behind this at Neurosky brainwave technology) we are creating a collaborative, technology based meditation concept using the Neurosky APIs. Think of it as a ‘game’ where you can synchronize with each other in a group
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NeuroSky devices are affordable, portable, and wireless. Most EEG based consumer devises on the market are essentially stripped down versions of medical EEGs. The core technology behind NeuroSky devices has been built from the ground up.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke,
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NeuroSky Broke the Guinness World Record for Brain-Computer Interface technology! http://bit.ly/m9SZBO http://fb.me/On9OQKNq
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