Brain hacking emerges as latest trend in wearable tech, but is it ready for prime time?

———- Brain-zap­ping gad­gets promise to make you a bet­ter you — smarter, stronger, even hap­pi­er (The Wash­ing­ton Post): “Amer­i­cans’ obses­sion with well­ness is fuel­ing a new cat­e­go­ry of con­sumer elec­tron­ics, one that goes far beyond the ubiq­ui­tous Fit­bits and UP activ­i­ty wrist­bands that only pas­sive­ly mon­i­tor users’ phys­i­cal activ­i­ty. The lat­est wear­able tech, to put it…

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Update: From smart homes to smart people — where digital health meets brain fitness

Who said, “So for me the most excit­ing take­away from this year’s CES (Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show)  isn’t the smart car or the smart home, it’s the smart per­son…” You can find the answer, and many insights on brain health inno­va­tion, by read­ing Sharp­Brains’ Jan­u­ary 2013 eNewslet­ter. Enjoy! Dig­i­tal health meets con­sumer elec­tron­ics and brain train­ing, by Dr. Evian…

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Digital health meets consumer electronics and brain training

There’s no doubt that the biggest buzz at this year’s Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show in Las Vegas didn’t come from the slimmest of tele­vi­sions, the most fash­ion­able head­phones or even a danc­ing robot. The buzz of CES 2013 was firm­ly cen­tred on all things health and the Dig­i­tal Health Sum­mit is where the action was hap­pen­ing. On…

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Emerging consumer electronics to monitor and enhance brain functioning

Ten Inno­v­a­tive Ideas in Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics (arti­cle by Bloomberg Busi­ness­week report­ing on CES 2013): “Human mon­i­tor­ing The human body can be mon­i­tored, too, allow­ing us all to per­form bet­ter and live longer. Heart­Math makes heart mon­i­tors that are worn dai­ly and report results online direct­ly to doctors…

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