Google Glass

Technology as a bridge in time: Shaping the future of brain health via today’s innovations–including those that “fail”

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Remem­ber Google Glass? Google invest­ed mil­lions of dol­lars and came to mar­ket in 2014 with the first gen­er­a­tion of wear­able aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) tech­nol­o­gy. You could wear their cool head­sets with or with­out glass­es and use them to read and send email all while going about oth­er tasks.

Even before it was avail­able to the pub­lic, Glass cre­at­ed a huge amount of buzz. In 2013, every­one want­ed to get in on beta testing.

Almost every keynote speak­er I saw that year would come out wear­ing a Google Glass headset—and then invari­ably admit the bat­tery had run out weeks ago and they were just wear­ing it to look cool. I have to admit, I did the same.

Maybe that’s because it made me nos­tal­gic for a prod­uct we had designed about ten years ear­li­er, in 2005. Our Visu­al­ly Inte­grat­ed Sen­sor Unit, or VISUnit, was an ear­ly ver­sion of an AR head­set. [Read more…] about Tech­nol­o­gy as a bridge in time: Shap­ing the future of brain health via today’s innovations–including those that “fail”

Debate: What are the ethics of discouraging much-needed innovation given potential privacy concerns?

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CNN’s Ana Maria Mon­tero inter­views Ned Sahin. The dis­cus­sion about the impact of EU pri­va­cy laws starts in minute 10.

Sto­ry descrip­tion (CNN Mon­ey): Ned Sahin is founder and CEO of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy start-up Brain Pow­er, whose tool “Empow­er Me” uses smart glass­es like Google Glass to coach those with autism. It helps school­child­ren learn social and cog­ni­tive skills and can even guide adults through an inter­view process. Brain Power’s prod­uct is sold to many schools in the U.S. but may nev­er make it to mar­ket in Switzer­land [Read more…] about Debate: What are the ethics of dis­cour­ag­ing much-need­ed inno­va­tion giv­en poten­tial pri­va­cy concerns?

Combining Google Glass and mobile EEG headsets

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PND-With-Glass-Front-1Per­son­al 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… [Read more…] about Com­bin­ing Google Glass and mobile EEG headsets