Technology as a bridge in time: Shaping the future of brain health via today’s innovations–including those that “fail”

Remem­ber Google Glass? Google invest­ed mil­lions of dol­lars and came to mar­ket in 2014 with the first gen­er­a­tion of wear­able aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) tech­nol­o­gy. You could wear their cool head­sets with or with­out glass­es and use them to read and send email all while going about oth­er tasks. Even before it was avail­able to the public,…

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Debate: What are the ethics of discouraging much-needed innovation given potential privacy concerns?

Sto­ry descrip­tion (CNN Mon­ey): Ned Sahin is founder and CEO of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy start-up Brain Pow­er, whose tool “Empow­er Me” uses smart glass­es like Google Glass to coach those with autism. It helps school­child­ren learn social and cog­ni­tive skills and can even guide adults through an inter­view process. Brain Power’s prod­uct is sold to many schools…

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Combining Google Glass and mobile EEG headsets

Per­son­al Neu­ro Seeks to Com­bine Google Glass with EEG (Medgad­get): “What do you get when you mix Google Glass and EEG? That’s the ques­tion that the peo­ple at Ottawa-based Per­son­al Neu­ro (Devices) are on their way to answering…

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