Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’. Does checking Twitter during the workday really leave you scatterbrained? Could taking up meditation help you tune out the noise and focus better? Melon… Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental … Continue reading Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus
Open Your Mind to the New Psychedelic Science Greg Miller, wired.com In recent years, a small cadre of scientists has cautiously rekindled the scientific study of psychedelics. At a recent conference, they reported new findings on how these drugs scramble brain activity in ways that might help explain their… Open Your Mind to the New … Continue reading Psychedelic science: the emerging science of plant based therapy
Life With Mind-Reading Machines Bianca Bosker, huffingtonpost.com Smile: Your computer is watching.Affectiva, a nearly 2-year-old startup that grew out of MIT’s Media Lab, is teaching machines to understand what you feel.Affectiva has developed a way for computers to recognize human emotions based on facial cues… RT @HuffingtonPost: What happens when machines know what you’re feeling? … Continue reading Neuromarketing with Affectiva
Originators of the MindSpa Personal Development System. This is kind of cool and promises to help your brain go to sleep more easily using light and sound. I wonder if it will be available in an iPod version? Related articles A Camera That Sees Your True Colors? (wnyc.org) Wearable Tech To Help Control Stress (i-programmer.info) … Continue reading MindSpa Personal Development System
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