What will the ‘Peloton for mental health’ look like five years from now? And, who will develop it?

By SharpBrains | October 23, 2020

Mind­Labs rais­es £1.4M for its new plat­form, a ‘Pelo­ton for men­tal health’ (TechCrunch): Ide­al­ly, men­tal well­ness should be con­sid­ered part of a healthy dai­ly rou­tine, like exer­cise. But even exer­cise is dif­fi­cult to turn into a reg­u­lar habit. Pelo­ton addressed phys­i­cal fit­ness by com­bin­ing smart sta­tion­ary bikes with live class­es and com­mu­ni­ty fea­tures to create…

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Important conversation: Who knows more about improving vision, a) the Federal Trade Commission or b) 60+ vision scientists

By SharpBrains | February 26, 2016

FTC Action Risks Sti­fling Inno­va­tion, Health App Inven­tor Says (Bloomberg): “Fed­er­al enforce­ment action against the mak­ers of a mobile app that claims to improve users’ vision will have a chill­ing effect on sci­en­tists hop­ing to com­mer­cial­ize their research, the app’s inven­tor told Bloomberg BNA Feb. 24.

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Next: Mobile apps to assess brain waves and improve driving safety

By SharpBrains | April 2, 2015

. App With a Mind For Improv­ing Trans­porta­tion Safe­ty (The Wall Street Jour­nal): “A team of sci­en­tists from Indone­sia has come up with a nov­el way to improve trans­porta­tion safe­ty in their coun­try through a mobile app that scans trans­port oper­a­tors’ brain waves and com­bines it with data on weath­er, vehi­cle and 

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Trend: Mobile apps to improve vision via perceptual learning

By SharpBrains | January 26, 2015

. Vision train­ing: Mobile app improved pilots’ vision (Air­craft Own­ers and Pilots Asso­ci­a­tion): “Mil­i­tary pilots (and oth­er test sub­jects) have improved their vision after a few weeks of train­ing with a new appli­ca­tion for mobile devices—an appli­ca­tion now avail­able to the pub­lic. The tech­nol­o­gy has helped ded­i­cat­ed users reverse age-relat­ed vision loss, and to help…

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Monitoring cognition via mobile applications: iPad app analyzed

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 12, 2012

We recent­ly came across a fas­ci­nat­ing sci­en­tif­ic study, titled Exam­in­ing cog­ni­tive func­tion across the lifes­pan using a mobile appli­ca­tion (Com­put­ers in Human Behav­ior), which stud­ied the val­ue and lim­i­ta­tions of using an iPad app called “brain­base­line.” Abstract: “Many stud­ies con­duct­ed in a lab­o­ra­to­ry or uni­ver­si­ty set­ting are lim­it­ed by fund­ing, per­son­nel, space, and time con­straints. In the present…

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