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

By SharpBrains | September 11, 2019

__________ 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,…

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

By SharpBrains | April 10, 2017

— 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

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

By SharpBrains | February 24, 2017

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…

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Medical signal monitoring and display: Key Neurotech Patent #3

By SharpBrains | February 2, 2017
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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…

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Trend: Harnessing biometrics and cognitive training to improve athletic performance

By SharpBrains | November 12, 2014

— 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 

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