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

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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. [Read more…] about Halo Neu­ro­science rais­es $13M to fur­ther devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion head­set aimed at induc­ing “hyper­plas­tic­i­ty”

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)

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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 sig­nal detec­tion by inte­grat­ing an EEG sen­sor (item 15 in the illus­tra­tive image) into the audio ear­piece to estab­lish a sens­ing head­set that is unlike­ly to cause dis­com­fort or oth­er­wise detract from the audio head­phone user’s expe­ri­ence. [Read more…] about 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)

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

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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 AR research as ear­ly as next month [Read more…] about Next: Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty (AR) and Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty (VR) meet brain scan­ning and human enhancement

French neurotech start-up Rythm raises $11m to help improve sleep quality

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Rythm rais­es $11M to pur­sue sleep-improv­ing neu­rotech­nol­o­gy (TechCrunch):

“French start­up Rythm, which makes a tech-infused head­set it claims improves sleep qual­i­ty, announced Tues­day that it’s raised over $11 mil­lion from pri­vate investors and pub­lic grants [Read more…] about French neu­rotech start-up Rythm rais­es $11m to help improve sleep quality

Harnessing virtual reality to practice meditation?

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Med­i­tat­ing in vir­tu­al real­i­ty (Penin­su­la Press):

“Imag­ine you are on a beach in Bali prac­tic­ing yoga at dawn, watch­ing the sun rise beyond the lagoon. The image is so vivid that you almost for­get you are actu­al­ly sit­ting in an office in San Fran­cis­co, wear­ing a vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) head­set. [Read more…] about Har­ness­ing vir­tu­al real­i­ty to prac­tice meditation?

Next: Mobile apps to assess brain waves and improve driving safety

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App With a Mind For Improv­ing Trans­porta­tion Safe­ty (The Wall Street Journal):

“A team of sci­en­tists from Indone­sia has come up with a nov­el way to improve trans­porta­tion safe­ty in their coun­try through a mobile app that scans trans­port oper­a­tors’ brain waves and com­bines it with data on weath­er, vehi­cle and [Read more…] about Next: Mobile apps to assess brain waves and improve dri­ving safety