What’s normal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why we need to study global neurodiversity

By Tan Le | February 12, 2020

In a small vil­lage in India—a place so remote it has no elec­tric­i­ty, no telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem, and no cars or buses—a research work­er pre­pares to place an EEG head­set on a female villager’s head. The woman, who earns $3.75 a day labor­ing in a near­by rice pad­dy and who has nev­er ven­tured out­side her vil­lage, eyes…

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The birth of “everyday” brain-computer interfaces

By SharpBrains | January 17, 2020

___ Neurable Rais­es $6 Mil­lion Series A To Build An ‘Every­day’ Brain-Com­put­er Inter­face (Forbes): “Neurable has announced a $6 mil­lion Series A round of fund­ing to move beyond VR appli­ca­tions and devel­op the every­day brain-com­put­er inter­face. These will take a head­phones form fac­tor and will tar­get con­sumers. This marks an excit­ing advance­ment for brain-com­put­er interfaces…

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Reservoir electrodes for electroencephalograph headgear appliance: Key Neurotech Patent #5

By SharpBrains | February 4, 2017
reservoir electrodes

Today we are shar­ing a 2001 patent assigned to Sed­line, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 6,301,493: Reser­voir elec­trodes for elec­troen­cephalo­graph head­gear appli­ance. Assignee(s): Sed­line, Inc. Inventor(s): Dominic P. Mar­ro, Thomas T. Wash­burn, Denis E. LaBom­bard Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG Issue Date: October…

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Combining Google Glass and mobile EEG headsets

By SharpBrains | April 15, 2014

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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