wearables

Beyond bulky VR headsets: Voice recognition, eye tracking, and natural gestures in the era of the metaverse and the “Medi-verse”

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Imag­ine you have moved to a new city and bought a con­do adver­tised as “meta­verse enabled.” Upon clos­ing, along with the phys­i­cal keys to your con­do, you receive a unique cryp­to­graph­ic key to the com­mu­ni­ty. You move into your neigh­bor­hood both phys­i­cal­ly and dig­i­tal­ly. With the cryp­to key, you link your own per­son­al meta­verse pro­file to the con­do. This merges your per­son­al meta­verse, includ­ing a dig­i­tal cat­a­log of all the objects in your home, to a dig­i­tal map of the new space inte­grat­ing all the sen­sors and devices that con­trol the objects through the meta­verse. [Read more…] about Beyond bulky VR head­sets: Voice recog­ni­tion, eye track­ing, and nat­ur­al ges­tures in the era of the meta­verse and the “Medi-verse”

Study: Wearable sensors and machine learning may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epileptic seizures

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Wear­able Device Clears a First ‘Mile­stone’ in Seizure Detec­tion (Med­scape; requires subscription):

A wrist-worn device that uses machine learn­ing accu­rate­ly detects dif­fer­ent seizure types in find­ings that have the poten­tial to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the man­age­ment of patients with epilepsy.

“We have set a first bench­mark for auto­mat­ic detec­tion of a vari­ety of epilep­tic seizures using wear­able sen­sors and deep-learn­ing algo­rithms. In oth­er words, we have shown for the first time that it’s pos­si­ble to do this,” study inves­ti­ga­tor Jian­bin Tang, MA, Data Sci­ence Project Lead, IBM Research Aus­tralia, Vic­to­ria, told Med­scape Med­ical News. [Read more…] about Study: Wear­able sen­sors and machine learn­ing may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epilep­tic seizures

Explore The State of Noninvasive Neurotechnology in 37 minutes and 1 image

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Heads-up: The record­ings for the webi­nar on The State of Non­in­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, held on May 19th, are already avail­able on YouTube. Dr. Ricar­do Gil-da-Cos­ta (above) and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (below) gave an excel­lent out­look on the brain tech indus­try, with a deep look into apps and wear­ables and the capa­bil­i­ties that human brain could achieve. We hope you enjoy the discussion.

For 19 years, Dr. Ricar­do Gil-da-Cos­ta’s pur­suit of how the mind and brain work led him to behav­ioral field stud­ies in Africa and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and neu­ro­phys­i­ol­o­gy lab­o­ra­to­ry research from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty to the U.S. Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health and the Salk Insti­tute for Bio­log­i­cal Stud­ies. Most recent­ly, he co-found­ed and serves as C.E.O. of Neu­ro­verse, Inc., a neu­rotech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny that has cre­at­ed a new class of mobile brain inter­faces for health and con­sumer elec­tron­ics applications.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez runs Sharp­Brains, an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm track­ing applied neu­ro­science. He is the Edi­tor-in-Chief of sem­i­nal mar­ket reports on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Dig­i­tal Brain Health, and co-author of the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age. He enjoys serv­ing in the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Future of Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, and in the Glob­al Teacher Prize Acad­e­my run by the Varkey Foundation.

The Event in Context:

Free webinar next Tuesday, May 19th, on neurotech and wearables for brain health

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Heads-up about an online event next week that may well inter­est some of you.

What: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Ricar­do Gil da Cos­ta will give an out­look on the brain devices indus­try and hard­ware tech­nolo­gies, with a deep look into this kind of wear­ables and the capa­bil­i­ties that human brain could achieve.

When: Tues­day, May 19th, 2020. 7am San Francisco/ 10am Miami/ 4pm Madrid

How: You can reg­is­ter Here (free).

The Speakers:

[Read more…] about Free webi­nar next Tues­day, May 19th, on neu­rotech and wear­ables for brain health

Update: Large study finds that consistent use of ADHD medication may stunt growth by 2 inches (5 centimeters)

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter, bring­ing you lat­est news around med­ica­tion, brain train­ing, sup­ple­ments, mind-wan­der­ing, dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics, wear­ables, and more — and also a few quick brain teasers to wrap-up.

New research:

New thinking:

New tools:

 

Final­ly, we have a cou­ple of fun, quick brain teasers for you, and also a selec­tion of arti­cles to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week 2018.

Have a great spring,

The Sharp­Brains Team

Neuropsychologist Amy Serin, Co-Founder of Brainnovations Winner The Touchpoint Solution, would like to see everyone avoid the detrimental effects of an overactive stress response

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Dr. Serin, what sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test?

It was great that at least one of the judges had already pur­chased and start­ed using our prod­uct so we could delve into the nuances of our tech­nol­o­gy quick­ly. And I was thrilled that all judges saw the pos­si­bil­i­ties to cre­ate sig­nif­i­cant glob­al impact.

In a nut­shell, what is the core idea behind Touch­Points?

Too many peo­ple suf­fer too much stress, often lead­ing to sleep­less­ness, crav­ings, anger, poor focus, poor per­for­mance, and feel­ing over­whelmed. Touch­Points aim at reduc­ing stress by deliv­er­ing hap­tic microvi­bra­tions via wear­able devices worn on both sides of the body. The [Read more…] about Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Amy Serin, Co-Founder of Brain­no­va­tions Win­ner The Touch­point Solu­tion, would like to see every­one avoid the detri­men­tal effects of an over­ac­tive stress response