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Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

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Re: Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

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Post by astrange »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #5

Haha yeah which is why I don’t wear them. Call me superstitious but two electronic earpieces communicating through your brain with one another, don’t like the idea. Oh and surprise we can actually scan your brain.

Wireless headphones mostly don't communicate to each other, they both pick up the same broadcasts coming from the audio source.

But your head is RF transparent, which means all RF anywhere near you is passing through it. That's fine, just don't stick it in a microwave.

Re: Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

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Post by karim79 »

For years, I've dreamed of a gadget that would interrupt me, but only do so once my brain's activity levels have reached an adequate threshold of meditation, relaxation, or even contentment.

The gadget of my dreams would then disrupt those relatively unmonetizable states of mind, which I tend to drift into from time-to-time, and with a much more profitable and optimized state of alertness using a variety of well-developed innovations and software tricks such as haptics, electromagnetism, or sound, at a liminal or subliminal threshold.

It matters not as long as the job gets done in the end. As long as the conversion has taken place, and that the signal-to-conversion ratio is well within parameters.

I'll then rest easy, knowing that I'm helping others. I'm saving jobs. Saving lives. Saving shareholders. Priceless.

Innovations such as this bring me one step closer to my own self-actualization. God bless innovation.

Re: Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

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Post by grecy »

RSMDZ wrote: post #44
grecy wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Should any of Apple's boffins be reading... I desperately want active breath monitoring I don't think it's a great idea to call people boffins and then ask them to do something for you.

You may be confusing boffin (British slang for expert) with buffoon (a ridiculous but amusing person)

Thanks you are correct, I took it as derogatory.

Re: Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

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Post by rogerkirkness »

c0pium wrote: post #75
rogerkirkness wrote: post #74

Started using EarPods (the wired ones) lately, love it. No charging, no signal issues, cost $24 so no stress about losing them. The future.

You forgot no audio quality.

No active noise cancelling, but the audio quality is good.

Re: Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

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Post by omscs99 »

A lot of negative comments here but I could see some merits to this (supposing it’s in an open source context and the data doesn’t go anywhere)

For example, whenever you start to get stressed out, the thing will tell you to take a break. Little things like that. Instead of relying on your own level of mindfulness to get you there

I think that little things like this could definitely improve quality of life, something I’d pay for personally, although with the constraint that the data doesn’t go anywhere with zero exceptions

Re: Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity

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Post by omscs99 »

an_aparallel wrote: post #69

the general population, and surprisingly a lot of tech heads dont care about the implications of brain wave activity, linked to your identity - phoning home to a corporation of google's size? we're one thought away for being thrown into jail for shower thoughts that go slightly the wrong side of "publicly acceptable". i think ALL of this technology is incredibly cool and exciting, BUT - my excitement is hampered by t…

> we're one thought away for being thrown into jail for shower thoughts that go slightly the wrong side of "publicly acceptable".

Not really. That’s like being laughed at for being naked at a nudist camp. If nobody has privacy, all of those little thoughts become public and the perception of what’s acceptable shifts

In a weird way privacy is a double edged sword and necessitates its own existence

I think, in general, we’d be a lot more sane as a society if we held back less from one another

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