[Noisebridge-discuss] Mattel Mindflex

[Praveen Sinha]

I didn't know you could use Pulse Oximeter for (neural) biofeedback --
how do you use it?    Of course I think the openEEG thing is a great
idea, although I'm starting to get the feeling I need to be picky
about projects to launch/get invovled with at noisebridge or I will
have to move in there :)

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jean Rintoul <jean.rintoul at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think those guys released the SDK but I could be wrong.
>
> There are big debates about releasing the raw EEG in all of the products for
> no good reason, which is a bit inconvenient. They'd all need some careful
> alterations... like maybe custom drivers and whatnot.
>
> There are tons of other cheaply available biofeedback things like GSR and
> Pulse Oximeters which seem interesting too.
>
> Maybe Noisebridge could improve/continue OpenEEG?
>
> Jean
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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