Muse: The Brain-Sensing Headband. Muse: The Brain-Sensing Headband Changing the Way the World Thinks Thank you to all our supporters, we reached our goal!
Muse will be shipping to you, we can't wait for you to try it. If you missed the campaign but want to get a Muse of your own when we reach market, email us at community@interaxon.ca We are so excited!! "The slim, fashion-forward device, which even Anna Wintour would conceivably wear" - Huffington Post "Finally: a brainwave-sensing gadget disguised as a stylish wearable headband that would fit right in with Google Glass. " - KurzweilAI.net "The world just got a little better. " - Trendhunter.com "The uses for a device like the Muse in the future are even more intriguing" - CNET.com Muse on CNBC (click image to view video - Segment starts at 4:04) Everyone deserves a Muse. Introducing Muse, our brainwave-sensing headband. Muse measures your brainwaves in real-time.
The neat thing is every time you use your brain with Muse and one of our applications, you’re strengthening it. Yes! Crowdfund a space combat PC game, a mind-reading headband, and tiles that will make your bedroom look like the Death Star. Mind over machine: Use your brainwaves to control your computer. When it comes to controlling our computers, the last five years has seen incredible improvements in user interfaces including amazing touch screens and much more natural vocal recognition.
Now, a Toronto company wants to take the UI to the next level — by going directly to the brain. You think it, and the Muse headband will make it happen under very limited circumstances. InteraXon, the maker of the Muse headband (seen above), has listed it device on Indiegogo in hopes of raising $150,000 for building out a mass-produced headband that translates your mental commands into a computer action. The example they show on the site is playing a game using an iPad, where the rotation of a wooden block occurs when the user focuses on it. The user tilts the iPad to change the angle of the rotation. The Emotiv EEG headset. The idea of a real brain to computer interface is cool and has been around for years.
Interaxon's Mindreading Muse 'Gets' You Better Than A Human Ever Could. Your devices may be on the cusp of understanding you better than any human ever could.
Interaxon, an Ontario-based startup specializing in thought-controlled computing, has plans to release a brainwave-reading headband, Muse, that will let users track and train their minds. Like Ford's "car that cares" or Nike's FuelBand, Muse is one of a growing number of devices monitoring us in increasingly intimate ways that both offer us insights into how we behave and bring tech companies even deeper into our lives. Described by Interaxon as a “heart monitor for your brain,” the Muse headband syncs with apps on tablets and cellphones to record a user’s emotions, mood, level of concentration and memory in response to various tasks, as well as provide training exercises designed to improve mental acuity.
Sensors touching the wearer's forehead and ears monitor brain activity. But that’s only the first step. “Technology is here to support human interactions, not take away from them,” Garten said. Introducing Muse: Changing The Way The World Thinks. New InteraXon Muse Consumer EEG Brain Wave Monitoring Device. 1inShare InteraXon, one of a few companies working on making consumer EEG brain monitoring practical and useful, has announced the development of a new device that is light, non-intrusive, and that can interface over Bluetooth with other gadgets.
The Muse headband features a four electrode EEG that is low energy Interaxon is now raising crowdsourced money on IndieGoGo to help fund the first production run for the Muse. They hope to be able to make it available for purchase in the spring of 2013 and we really hope someone will develop apps for it that people can actually get a real benefit from. So far consumer EEG, though it has great potential for amazing things, has been essentially limited to basic gaming. From InteraXon’s IndieGoGo campaign: We wanted to build an EEG device that would comfortably introduce people to brainwave-enabled technology.