Philips and Accenture develop ALS care proof of concept on top of Emotiv brain wave headset

By SharpBrains | August 8, 2014

Philips, Accen­ture test brain-con­trolled sys­tem for ALS patients (Reuters): “The Nether­lands’ Roy­al Philips and IT con­sul­tan­cy Accen­ture are devel­op­ing soft­ware to help peo­ple with neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases like amy­otroph­ic lat­er­al scle­ro­sis, com­mon­ly known as Lou Gehrig’s dis­ease, live more independently.

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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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Brain Training and Cognitive Assessment Market Surpassed $1.3 Billion In 2013

By SharpBrains | January 23, 2014

Heads-up: We just announced a new intel­li­gence pack­age aimed at edu­ca­tion, health, gam­ing and tech­nol­o­gy exec­u­tives and inno­va­tors. “Many mar­ket reports pro­vide lit­tle val­ue for the mon­ey. This mar­ket report by Sharp­Brains is the pre­cise oppo­site. Its wealth of data and analy­sis pro­vides very valu­able strate­gic and busi­ness devel­op­ment guid­ance to orga­ni­za­tions at the frontier…

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If you play chess, then take up hiking

By SharpBrains | November 6, 2013

Heads up on a cou­ple of good arti­cles, one shar­ing great brain fit­ness tips based on the mate­r­i­al dis­cussed dur­ing our 2013 Sum­mit, the oth­er ana­lyz­ing the growth of cog­ni­tive train­ing ser­vice Lumos­i­ty. 7 Ways to Opti­mize Your Brain (Huff­in­g­ton Post): “3. Cross-train your brain. The say­ing “use it or lose it” clear­ly applies to brain…

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Got Brain? Investing in Our Most Precious Asset in 2013

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2012

Open a week­end New York Times or Wall Street Jour­nal and you’ll find a whole sec­tion with detailed infor­ma­tion and advice for indi­vid­u­als look­ing to invest wise­ly. What you will not find, how­ev­er, is com­pa­ra­ble infor­ma­tion and advice for invest­ing in your most impor­tant asset of all: your brain. Pre­cise­ly because it (usu­al­ly) does its…

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