MindRider bike helmet reads your brain. Every day, we see more devices designed to read brain patterns, waves, and thoughts.
With this technology becoming less expensive, we’re probably going to continue to see an uptick in this trend. Everything from TVs to cars to skateboards is getting the mind-reading treatment, and a team from MIT’s Media Lab has come up with a new mind-reading device: a bike helmet that can monitor your brain waves while you ride, enabling you to see which parts of your route are relaxing and which ones are stressing you out. Called MindRider, this new helmet maps and tracks your movements, whether on a bicycle, skateboard, rollerblades, or anything else. It then looks at your route and creates a map, showing you exactly where you ran into high stress situations while riding and which parts of your route kept you relaxed.
The idea is to look at all these mind maps together and use the data to create better city bike routes and paths. Via Kickstarter. MindRider: A New Mind-Mapping Helmet System by DuKorp. MindRider is a new helmet system that shows your levels of engagement (from relaxed to focused), as you move through your environment, in real-time.
The MindRider app maps and tracks these levels, and allows you to share your "mind-maps" with others. These maps provide quantified insight that empower you to maximize your riding experience, and they can be a great resource for riding communities and street advocacy. We built the original MindRider for cyclists and have tested it with commuters, beginners, and avid riders. Recently, we’ve tested MindRider with skaters, as well. Josue (daily commuter), Alex (new cyclist) , and Julia (skater & rollerblader) all talk about their MindRiding experience in our video. But they aren’t the only kinds of riders that can benefit from MindRider. The MindRider helmet translates your mind's engagement levels through a comfortable soft sensor embedded in the helmet's foam. Features Compatibility iPhone 4S or lateriPad 3 or later BLE-enabled Android devices.
Will brainwaves control tomorrow's computers? This blog is part of a series on our Top Ten Emerging Technologies 2014.
Every human-computer interface is really a brain-computer interface; it’s just a matter of degree. Our intentions may be sent from our brain to the computer through our fingers and a keyboard, through a camera that tracks eye movement, or from sensors that read signals from the surface of the scalp or from individual neurons. It’s a continuum. However, when we talk about “brain-computer interfaces” (BCIs) today, we are talking about capturing signals directly from the brain and using them to control an electronic device. This can be done in a few ways, such as through electroencephalography (EEG) sensors that record electrical impulses from the brain, or functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIR), which uses light to monitor blood flow in the brain.
These technologies are not mind readers just yet, but they can be trained to recognize patterns in controlled scenarios. Introducing Muse: Changing The Way The World Thinks. NeuroGaming Conference. Muse: the brain sensing headband. Muse Headband Opens the Door to Brain-to-Computer Applications. FitBit, Jawbone, Aero: Wearable devices to track physical activity are everywhere.
But technology advocates insist that’s not all the devices can do — not by a long shot. The tiny machines promise to track our vital signs and share them with doctors. And eventually, many believe, they may be able to detect our brain activity and power computers hands-free. Muse, a headband fitted with EEG sensors, is an early entrant in the race to that future. Made by the Canadian company InteraXon, the headband sells now with a soft sales pitch: Track your brain activity for a half and hour a day to train yourself to focus or meditate better. “The same way taking your pulse will tell you how your body is doing during physical exercise, this will tell you how your brain is doing during mental exercise,” said co-founder Trevor Coleman in an early Indiegogo video.
“When your mind is concentrated and focused on a single thing, we can detect that. Photos: InteraXon. Thought Technology Ltd. Home page Thought Technology Ltd.