[Noisebridge-discuss] Mattel Mindflex

[Mitch Altman]

Me and a couple friends each bought a set of OpenEEG boards.  The hardware works great.  Getting the electrodes to work is another story.  I haven't had much time to play with it, though.  After I get back, and get settled, OpenEEG is one of the things I want to make time for at Noisebridge.
 
Here's one of the projects I have in mind:  I'd love to be able to measure peoples' brainwaves while using a Brain Machine, and tweak the brainwave sequences to work really well for getting from any one state of mind (such as groggy, or wide awake) to any other you like (such as alert, or deep meditation, or a really nice nap).
 
Mitch.
 



Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:41:21 -0800From: jean.rintoul at gmail.comTo: dmhomee at gmail.comSubject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Mattel MindflexCC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.netOoh I just meant to use it to measure heart rate changes which can tell you a lot about the person's mental state. No neural feedback there. But yeah, I agree. OpenEEG is the cool but there are too many other things that are cool as well! Jean
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:
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 greatidea, although I'm starting to get the feeling I need to be pickyabout projects to launch/get invovled with at noisebridge or I willhave 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>> >> _______________________________________________>> >> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list>> >> Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>> >> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss>> >>> >>> > _______________________________________________>> > Noisebridge-discuss mailing list>> > Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>> > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss>> >>> >>>
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