[Noisebridge-discuss] Mattel Mindflex

[Praveen Sinha]

Wow the ocz neural doohickey is really comparitvely cheap -- I think I
appreciate the differences as to what the emotiv product is trying to
do in terms of learning a brain pattern, but... Would the neurosky or
ocz products be good platforms to take the hardware and write your own
software for more complicated uses?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jean Rintoul <jean.rintoul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah I've tried it.
> It is an incarnation of Neurosky's contribution to the BCI market. Emotiv
> and Neurosky were both at last years GDC and we had tried each other's
> products. All processing is done in hardware, and it appears to only be an
> alpha wave detector. There is no training machine-learning component. You
> can select what you want your meditative state to trigger, be it killing
> cute animals, or setting things on fire(examples they had).
> http://www.neurosky.com/products/mindflex/
>
> Very simple. Hence their ability to bring it to market so quickly.
>
> Also tried this one:
> http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/ocz_peripherals/nia-neural_impulse_actuator
>
> It's a bit better, but very much affected by mains noise. Still, limited in
> what it can pick up and not many electrodes(this one is trainable). It also
> looks a little like some kind of 80's head band... not that there is
> anything wrong with that...
>
> http://vadim.oversigma.com/Emotiv/Emoraptor.mpg
>
> Jean
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has anybody heard anything definite about the Mattel Mindflex?  Or,
>> better yet, gotten their grubby little mitts on one?
>>
>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/06/mattel_mindflex/
>>
>> It looks like a fun sort of toy, going back to everyone's fascination
>> with EEGs and brainwaves.
>> --
>> Josh Myer   650.248.3796
>>  josh at joshisanerd.com
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