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May “industry review boards” contribute to the wider adoption of virtual and augmented reality for physical and mental health?

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Indus­try review boards are need­ed to pro­tect VR user pri­va­cy (World Eco­nom­ic Forum blog):

“It seemed like a game when Riley first start­ed the vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) maze … A month after play­ing the game, Riley was turned down for a new life-insur­ance pol­i­cy. Giv­en his excel­lent health, he couldn’t under­stand why. Sev­er­al appeals lat­er, the insur­ance com­pa­ny dis­closed that Riley’s track­ing data from the VR maze game revealed behav­ioral move­ment pat­terns often seen among peo­ple in the very ear­ly stages of demen­tia [Read more…] about May “indus­try review boards” con­tribute to the wider adop­tion of vir­tu­al and aug­ment­ed real­i­ty for phys­i­cal and men­tal health?

Cognitive enhancement at the edge: The US Navy tests neuro-priming and other non-pharmacological aids to boost cognition and performance

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Super SEALs: Elite Units Pur­sue Brain-Stim­u­lat­ing Tech­nolo­gies (Military.com):

“At a con­fer­ence near Wash­ing­ton, D.C., in Feb­ru­ary, the com­man­der of all Navy spe­cial oper­a­tions units made an unusu­al request to indus­try: Devel­op and demon­strate tech­nolo­gies that offer “cog­ni­tive enhance­ment” capa­bil­i­ties to boost his elite forces’ men­tal and phys­i­cal per­for­mance [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive enhance­ment at the edge: The US Navy tests neu­ro-prim­ing and oth­er non-phar­ma­co­log­i­cal aids to boost cog­ni­tion and performance

Recognizing unique EEG brainwaves to enhance biometric authentication: Key Neurotech Patent #20

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– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 6,898,299

Today we are shar­ing a robust 2005 patent har­ness­ing EEG brain­waves in the (now) hot space of bio­met­ric authen­ti­ca­tion and secu­ri­ty. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 6,898,299: Method and sys­tem for bio­met­ric recog­ni­tion based on elec­tric and/or mag­net­ic characteristics.

  • Assignee(s): GR Intel­lec­tu­al Reserve, LLC
  • Inventor(s): Juliana H. Brooks
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG
  • Issue Date: May 24, 2005

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘299 patent applies EEG sig­nals, along with a num­ber of oth­er bio­met­ric sig­nals, to a wide array of authen­ti­ca­tion and secu­ri­ty appli­ca­tions. [Read more…] about Rec­og­niz­ing unique EEG brain­waves to enhance bio­met­ric authen­ti­ca­tion: Key Neu­rotech Patent #20

Medical signal monitoring and display: Key Neurotech Patent #3

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– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 6,224,549

Today we are shar­ing a 2001 patent assigned to Care­fu­sion 209, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 6,224,549: Med­ical sig­nal mon­i­tor­ing and display

  • Assignee(s): Care­fu­sion 209, Inc.
  • Inventor(s): Wirm van Drongelen
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG
  • Issue Date: May 1, 2001

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘549 patent address­es this prob­lem by com­bin­ing EEG data with oth­er sen­sor data (e.g., EMG data), togeth­er with a cus­tomiz­able pre­sen­ta­tion that is best suit­ed for the nurse, doc­tor or patient gath­er­ing data.

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Trend: Harnessing biometrics and cognitive training to improve athletic performance

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Is Cog­ni­tive Train­ing the Next Fron­tier in Sports? (iQ by Intel):

“The shift to quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis of so-called ath­lete intan­gi­bles — data pre­vi­ous­ly unat­tain­able before track­ing devices pro­vid­ed empir­i­cal evi­dence — is replac­ing gut instinct and guess­work in sports…the vol­un­teers spent a half hour play­ing a unique video game that record­ed their phys­i­o­log­i­cal reac­tions to [Read more…] about Trend: Har­ness­ing bio­met­rics and cog­ni­tive train­ing to improve ath­let­ic performance