Category Archives: Brain-Machine Interfaces

Brain and ears…

Usually this blog reports on fancy inventions or breakthroughs related to the biomedical field. We have discussed many technical advances that will ultimately improve the quality of people who suffer from a wide range of pathologies.

Sometimes though medical knowledge and engineering can come together in a funny way, too. The company ‘neurowear’ is doing exactly this as stated on their website: "to develop fashion items and gadgets using brain waves and other biosensors". Their first product is called ‘Necomimi’ and instead of spending a lot of words explaining what it exactly does, this movie might be self-explaining:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w06zvM2x_lw

Enjoy!

Marijn

Would you allow your brain to drive your car?

German scientists have managed to develop a car that can be controlled by signals recorded from the brain. These signals are captured by a brain interface based on electro-encephalography (EEG) sensors, which was originally designed for gaming.

  

Click here for a video that highlights the thought-powered driving system on a trip to the airport. More information on the BrainDriver can be found here.

Currently, the system still experiences serious latency, as the brain waves first have to be analyzed, clustered and classified — I’d recommend a multi-wavelet transform for doing so — before appropriate action can be taken. It still will take a while before we really can take our hands off the wheel, sit back and imagine we’re at our destination already.