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Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Re: Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Post by icelancer »

curiousDog wrote: post #20

Ahh, was hoping it was a device that delivered minimal tDCS. Does such a device exist? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_sti...

http://www.foc.us/

Foc.us does. I have one. Works well.

EDIT: Downvoted for providing a link? I don't work for Foc.us or anything.

Re: Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Post by glassdoor »

Given that Jason has funded this startup, also invested in Calm (and I believe in his intelligence), I should not doubt this product. This product has been demonstrated first in the Launch Hackaton and it worked. Coming from the signal processing background I'm always very suspicious how sensors can preform such great filtering on the signal, but looking at the investor profile makes me think there is something there.

Re: Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Post by ejain »

Killah911 wrote: post #13

A $300 consumer product that promises to help one be more "mindful" & "present" more "efficiently" than plain old meditation. What is sad is the irony in all of this. What's sadder is that I want to buy it... Might be brilliant on their part. Corporate consultant gurus are making quite a nickel telling execs to be more "mindful" & "present". Might be an opportune time to break into the market and displace some spirit…

You don't really need a gadget to meditate, any more than you need an app to go running. But it's nice to be able to keep track of your progress, and maybe even use the data to see how variables like sleep or exercise affect your ability to stay focused and relaxed.

I wrote a small app to record short meditation sessions using a NeuroSky MindWave [https://github.com/zenobase/zenobase-mindlog]. But I stopped using it because getting this device positioned correctly was a pain...

Re: Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Post by Kiro »

dsl wrote: post #3

I'm glad it wraps around the front of the head. It's an amazing visual clue to everyone else that this is the type of person you want to avoid a conversation with.

Funny comment but completely out of context since this is not something you're supposed to wear in public.

Re: Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Post by [deleted] »

pknight wrote: post #4

I've been waiting for a basic device that just tells me roughly what brain state I'm in (alpha/beta/delta/theta/gamma dominant) with bonus points if it has a feedback mechanism to make it easier to train one self into a certain state. I don't think they got the pricing right. There are already quite a lot of consumer EEG devices on the market that either do more and/or are cheaper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar…

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Re: Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Post by caycep »

The cynic in me feels that much of what they may be determining is from muscle artifact...i've been looking through some (plain old clinical/medical 32 electrode) EEG data and even that has a lot of artifact. Although I suppose it's some behavioral correlation - the more stressed out you are the more you clench your muscles, I suppose.

At the very least if they've figured out how to get clean EEG w/o having to use smelly EEG conductive goop, props to them!

Re: Muse: the brain sensing headband

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Post by waterlesscloud »

Reminds me of the Atari Mindlink.

http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink...

It worked via your forehead muscles.

Weirdly, I did consumer research testing for this thing as a teenager. They showed us a video and then let us test it with River Raid (which was an Activision game, go figure). Then one of those group sessions where they interview you all with someone filming behind a two-way mirror. The Atari thing did kinda work. Sorta. Anyway, it was a fun consumer research thing to be paid for.

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