Your brain is constantly producing electrical signals while it operates, as the cellular components of the brain (neurons) communicate with each other. At a macro scale, they produce a range of frequencies that scientists have found relate to particular mental states. For example, a sleeping person’s brain produces an abundance of delta waves, whereas an alert and awake person concentrating hard on something will produce far more beta waves.
The Mindwave headset picks up your brain’s electrical activity and divides the signal by frequency into various types of waves, allowing it to infer your mental state. For the most of the non-scientific apps however, it primarily reads how relaxed (as measured by alpha/theta waves) or concentrated (as measured by beta/gamma waves) you are.
Unfortunately your body makes a lot of other electrical noise, in addition to the activity coming from your brain. For this reason there is a ‘reference’ contact, in the form of a clip that attaches to your earlobe, which allows the headset to filter out non-brain related electrical activity.
NeuroSky is breaking the boundaries of health and wellness tracking and analysis by enabling a new generation of consumer wearables and mobile devices. Our advanced biosensors, biometric algorithms, reference designs, and Big Data analytics enable leading-edge innovation in mHealth products and services for measuring body and mind performance.
The Mindwave headset is a slim, matte black/light blue plastic device which fits comfortably, if not unobtrusively, over your left ear. The primary sensor sits on your forehead pretty comfortably, although it will take a minute or two to adjust it the first time you put it on. The ear clip is likewise pretty comfortable, and the whole apparatus has the advantage of easily allowing you to wear over-ear headphones at the same time if you so choose.
It connects via bluetooth to the device of your choice, and works with most operating systems.
NeuroSky’s technologies enable product developers and enterprise service providers to create solutions that can capture, quantify, and reveal the industry’s broadest range of personalized health and wellness metrics. Easy to understand and use, the advanced biometrics enabled by NeuroSky technologies give consumers actionable information to help them evaluate their fitness — and if necessary, change their behavior to get on the path to healthier living.
NeuroSky’s mission is to make innovative biosensor technologies available on a mass-market scale. Our leadership in electroencephalogram (EEG) biosensors has produced hundreds of breakthroughs in consumer-level brainwave monitoring. And recent advances in our electrocardiogram (ECG) biosensors and biometric algorithms are now enabling OEMs, ODMs, and service providers to develop solutions that can monitor and analyze a vast array of cardio bio-signals previously not available in consumer wearables. Our ECG biosensor Cardiochip™ and our biometric algorithm roadmaps will accelerate innovative differentiation for our customers by enabling them to develop the kind of mHealth solutions that today’s consumers demand.
NeuroSky partners with organizations that are building next-generation, consumer-facing wearable and mobile products. Our partners choose us for our leading technologies, innovative product reference platforms, and our suite of tools that enable fast time to market. Most of all, they choose NeuroSky because our technologies enable the efficient and cost-effective development of one-of-a-kind products and services that truly stand out in the marketplace.
ECG & EEG biosensors: Enabling the most insightful health and wellness biometrics in mobile and wearable devices.
NeuroSky’s innovative biosensors enable breakthrough biometric algorithms that can help people lead a healthier life. The body and mind biometrics consumers need most, empowered by one-of-a-kind technologies that give providers of wearables and mHealth tracking solutions a complete competitive edge.
ECG Biosensors
A technology platform for wearables and tracking services. The NeuroSky platform enables the development of applications that promote cardio fitness and health via accurate cardio measurement and processing. Our low-cost, total OEM solution is based on a single biosensor chip in a small, embeddable form factor.
Electroencephalogram (EEG) activity has historically required complex, intimidating and immovable equipment costing thousands of dollars. NeuroSky is unlocking a new world of solutions for education and entertainment with our research-grade, mobile, embeddable EEG biosensor solutions. Precisely accurate, portable and noise-filtering, our EEG biosensors translate brain activity into action.
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