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President Obama impressed by Israeli brain-computer interface projects
Posted on March 26, 2013 | 2 CommentsAs part of his Israel trip President Obama gave accolades to researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) who presented two projects based on brain-computer interface technology at the Israel... -
Mindwalker exoskeleton uses EEG cap to help disabled people walk again
Posted on March 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsAlthough no medical cure currently exists for spinal cord injury, paralyzed patients in the future could be able to walk again thanks to robotic exoskeleton technology, being developed all around the... -
Throw Trucks With Your Mind. Need we say more?
Posted on March 12, 2013 | No CommentsIf you’ve been reading NG for a while, you’re undoubtedly aware that people are using brain-control interfaces for all kinds of crazy things – next-generation prosthetic limbs, brain-to-brain communication, and... -
Scientists demonstrate wireless neural interface
Posted on March 7, 2013 | 1 CommentXray image of (a) a pig and (b) a rhesus monkey showing wireless implant (credit: David A Borton et al./J. Neural Eng.) Scientists at Brown University have developed a fully... -
Mico from Neurowear analyses brainwaves, plays music that fits your mood (video)
Posted on March 6, 2013 | 7 CommentsThe always creative Neurowear company, creator of the overly successful brain-controlled Necomimi cat ears and the wearable tail accessory Shippo, has announced its newest invention, Mico, a system consisting of a... -
5th International BCI Meeting in Pacific Grove, California, June 3-7, 2013
Posted on March 4, 2013 | 1 CommentBCI researchers from all over the world will come together this summer for the 5th International BCI Meeting. The triennial brain-computer interface meeting series (1999, 2002, 2005, 2010, and 2013) is... -
Brain-to-brain interface allows rats to communicate telepathically (video)
Posted on March 4, 2013 | 2 CommentsA pair of rats, thousands of miles apart, was able to successfully communicate information directly using their brains. The lab of Dr. Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University has recently published... -
First NeuroGaming Meetup hosts live brain-controlled music in San Francisco, 7 March, 2013
Posted on February 27, 2013 | 1 CommentAs a warm-up for the upcoming NeuroGaming 2013 Conference and Expo, the first NeuroGaming Meetup will be held on March 7, 2013 in San Francisco’s YetiZen Innovation Lab. By attending the... -
Stretchable battery to power implants inside the human body
Posted on February 26, 2013 | 1 CommentScientists at the Northwestern University have demonstrated a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that can be stretched, twisted and bended, and still capable of powering electronics. The power and voltage of the stretchable battery are similar... -
Universal Mediaman: projects at the intersection of art, mind, and science
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsUniversal Mediaman, maker of the award-winning NeuroSky application Dagaz, has added three new neurofeedback projects to his portfolio: Heartlive, Grapheme, and Biodome – all centered on the concept of generating... -
Second Neuromarketing World Forum to be held in São Paulo, 6-8 March, 2013
Posted on February 25, 2013 | 1 CommentIt’s been a while since we have posted about neuromarketing, the interdisciplinary field between behavioral neuroscience and marketing. The term Neuromarketing was only first used in 2002 but barely more... -
New meditation app ‘Transcend’ measures the quality of your meditation sessions
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsFollowing the first brain-controlled Android games UpCake and UpCake 2.0, app developer Personal Neuro Devices has launched a new title, Transcend, that gives its users real feedback about the quality and duration of their meditation... -
New ‘feeling’ bionic hand begins clinical trials
Posted on February 20, 2013 | 3 CommentsResearchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland announced the first clinical trials of an advanced new bionic hand. Unlike almost all forearm prosthetics in clinical use... -
TED: Miguel Nicolelis talks about using our brains to directly control machines
Posted on February 19, 2013 | 1 Comment“Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put in enough effort to make it come true.” This is how Professor Miguel Nicolelis comments the limits of brain-machine interface... -
Implant gives rats sixth sense, now they can see infrared light
Posted on February 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsDuke University researchers have equipped rats with implanted sensors that enable them to see and respond to infrared light, which is normally invisible to rodent (and human) eyes. Rats in the... -
Brainwaves and Bobsleds: a talk with Peter Freer
Posted on February 12, 2013 | 1 CommentThe guy who holds the key to the future of brainwave tech isn’t what you’d expect. Chalk it up to an imagination prone to stereotypes, but when I heard about... -
The US Department of Defense released BioZen, a free biofeedback app for Android devices
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsThe US Department of Defense (DoD), coordinator and supervisor of all agencies and functions of the US government, has released BioZen, a free smartphone application to help service members use the... -
The successful conclusion of OpenVibe2
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsAfter three years of exceptional research in BCI control of computer gaming, the OpenVibe2 initiative has come to an end. This open-source initiative aimed to explore the possibilities of... -
Collaborative BCI: two minds are better than one at steering a thought-controlled virtual spacecraft
Posted on February 7, 2013 | No CommentsScientists at the University of Essex have been working with NASA on a ‘collaborative BCI’ project where multiple users controlled the same virtual spacecraft by thought alone. Using brain-computer interface (BCI)... -
UK government-funded BCI app brings self hypnosis to everyone: an interview with NeuroCoach
Posted on February 7, 2013 | 3 CommentsWe at Neurogadget have another interview for you this week, this time with Jon Clare, one of the creators of the upcoming BCI app NeuroCoach. This new app is designed...
