Halo Neuroscience raises $13M to further develop and commercialize neuromodulation headset aimed at inducing “hyperplasticity”

By SharpBrains | February 2, 2018

___ Halo Neu­ro­science rais­es $13m in Series B (Mass Device): “Neu­rostim­u­la­tion device mak­er Halo Neu­ro­science said today it raised $13 mil­lion in a Series B round of financ­ing to sup­port its Halo Sport neu­rostim head­set designed to improve mus­cle mem­o­ry acqui­si­tion from ath­let­ic training.

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Want a music system that lifts you up when you’re feeling down? Meet this audio headset with bio-signal sensors (key neurotech patent #48)

By SharpBrains | May 18, 2017

— Today we are fea­tur­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing patent by Neu­roSky, cou­pling an audio head­phone set sys­tem with EEG sig­nal detec­tion. U.S. Patent No. 8,271,075: Audio head­set with bio-sig­­nal sen­sors Assignee(s): Neu­roSky, Inc. Inventor(s): Cheng‑I Chuang, KooHy­oung Lee Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG Issue Date: Sep­tem­ber 18, 2012 Sharp­Brains’ Take: The ‘075 patent cou­ples an audio head­phone set sys­tem with EEG…

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Next: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) meet brain scanning and human enhancement

By SharpBrains | April 5, 2017

— Face­book, Apple and the Com­ing Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty Land Grab (Vari­ety): “Two new reports sug­gest that two of Sil­i­con Valley’s biggest com­pa­nies are secret­ly work­ing on aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) tech­nol­o­gy. It may take some time before Apple is going to reveal its efforts in the space, but Face­book may give us a glance at its…

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