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  • Tan Le named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic!

    "Innovator and Entrepreneur Tan Le develops EEG innovations and a data-sharing platform that could dramatically accelerate research and understanding of the human brain."

    Congratulations Tan?!

    Learn more about the 17 emerging explorers named: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/15/announcing-the-2013-class-of-emerging-explorers/
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  • What's new about your SDK?
    Did you register already? Learn tomorrow about the new features of the latest Software Development Kit and how to use them! Tune in on 16th May, 12pm-1pm PDT http://bit.ly/ZUisb5
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  • Son of Nor - New neurogaming integration for EPOC!
    Calling all Neurogamers- check out our latest collaboration with Son of Nor on Kickstarter! Support and share!
    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stillalivestudios/son-of-nor-the-world-is-your-weapon
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  • SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
    "Instead of waiting for the elusive 'magic pill' for cognitive enhancement or Alzheimer's treatment, we need to pay more attention to lifestyle and research-based brain training tools. This book provides an easy-to-follow guide to understanding and harnessing the natural properties of the brain so that more readers can thrive in the 21st century." - Alvaro Fernandez, CEO of SharpBrains and co-author of SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/dc-sharpbrains-idUSnPNCG04387+1e0+PRN20130430

    For more information on SharpBrains and where to purchase SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness, please visit http://sharpbrains.com/index.php
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  • Fabulous Duo Erica and Richard Warp present NeuroDisco!
    NeuroDisco, a 7 foot tall mind-controlled music and light installation by Dr. Erica Warp, Richard Warp and Chung-Hay Luk will be presented at San Francisco's Cal Academy of Sciences Nightlife on May 9!

    More details here: http://calendar.calacademy.org/content/feel-the-music-nightlife

    Purchase URL:
    https://tickets.calacademy.org/store/?storeName=nightLife
    Long Description:
    Open your ears and your soul—this week we’re exploring the intersection of sound and emotion with help from swissnex San Francisco. At interactive stations set up by scientist Eduardo Coutinho, listen to a plant make music, and explore how emotions are expressed differently in music and the human voice. See NeuroDisco, a 7 foot tall mind-controlled music and light installation by Dr. Erica Warp, Richard Warp and Chung-Hay Luk. Explore how your ears (along with your nose and mouth) affect the experience of wine tasting at 7:30 and 8:30 (note: capacity at tastings is limited). Didier Grandjean, expert in the neuropsychology of emotion, will give a talk on the “Bliss of the Beat” at 8:30. Listen to bird songs curated by the Academy’s own Ore Carmi at the Project Lab, and in the planetarium, catch a special screening of the math-meets-music show Chaos and Order at 6:30, followed by Earthquake at 7:30 and 8:30. Musicologist and pianist Steffen Schmidt will perform “Piano and Soundscape,” and “Noise and the Digital Stethoscope” in the coral reef. Slayers Club DJs will play sets built around a different emotion each hour.

    Summary:
    Open your ears and your soul—this week we’re exploring the intersection of sound and emotion with help from swissnex San Francisco.
    Date:
    Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 18:00 to 22:00
    Administrative Notes:
    4/13
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  • Music therapy and Brain Activity
    Paul Potts Nessun Dorma
    What happens to my brain when i listen to his first audition.
    Emotiv Epoc TestBench - 3D Brain Activity Map Windows 8 EEG
    Programs: Emotiv Test Bench ver. 1.5.1.2
    3D Brain Activity Map

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwq2f-VRpM
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  • Emotiv Epoc TestBench - 3D Brain Activity Map Windows 8 EEG
    Windows 8 EEG
    Programs: Emotiv Test Bench ver. 1.5.1.2
    3D Brain Activity Map
    EEG of a slow working brain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erb-N3OD6nc
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  • See you at TEDMED 2013!
    The human brain, our most amazing organ, is an intricate and complex network of connections. It is highly successful at extracting patterns from overwhelming amounts of data to build our personal reality. At Emotiv, we are pushing the frontier in gaining insights into the brain. Emotiv is a proud partner of TEDMED 2013!

    http://www.tedmed.com/partners/index?ref=contributors
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  • A Smartphone Domotic Control using Brain Computer Interface
    The purpose of the project is to increase the socialization of people having difficulties using their hands, or unable to use other body language to convey emotions. More specifically the project is designed to better assist those with quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, locked-in syndrome, and similar disabilities.

    Such an enhanced socialization may be achieved by two means:

    First, by giving system users explicit access to the technological services common to the non-disabled, especially environment control such as lighting and climatisation, television and on-demand media.

    Second, by improving the communication between the user and their dearest, with real-time representation of a user’s emotions.

    The Emo-Activ system is designed to use standard computer resources offering virtual independence from disabilities affecting individual users.
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  • Support Thinker Thing's Monster Dreamer on Indiegogo!
    We're huge fans of Thinker Thing's latest project on Indiegogo: Create Real Objects with Your Mind using Emotiv's EPOC! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/create-real-objects-with-your-mind
    Support and Share!!
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  • New EPOC Control Panel!
    We're excited to announce the release of the new EPOC Control Panel version 2.0.0.4 for Windows Platform!

    Compete for the top ranking Focused Mind in our Cognitiv Challenge. Recently launched at TED 2013, we're excited to bring this challenge to the community. Now you can compete to unseat the current highest scores from, Gary Flake, Lindsay Litowitz and Sergey Brin!

    Meet Emobot- our new Expressiv Suite avatar!

    Free download for current EPOC Windows users!

    New Features include:

    Cognitiv Challenge
    Emobot avatar for Expressiv
    Emobot avatar can respond to gyro mouse
    Full screen mode option
    Gyro mouse driver upgraded - compatible with many more applications
    Sound player added to EmoKey

    EPOC Control Panel version 2.0.0.4 for MAC to be released next week! Check back for details!


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  • Two upcoming April online seminars! Register and Share!
    Have you registered for our April online seminars?
    http://emotiv.com/ideas/events/

    Monday April 8, 2013 -5:00pm - 6:00pm (PST)-

    Learn how to use your SDK and start innovating! Back by popular demand, we've added another session for you to learn how to develop with the SDK from our software engineer, Adam.

    Wednesday April 24, 2013 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT -

    We are proud to host Dr. Ingmar Gutberlet, Director Sales & Marketing at SMI, at our next seminar session. Dr. Gutberlet will be providing a demo of the integrated solution between the SMI RED-m remote eye tracker and the Emotiv Neuroheadset.
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  • Smartphone Brain Scanner
    In case you missed it, the team at Danish Technical University (DTU Denmark) have produced an open source project coupling the Emotiv EEG neuroheadset to a range of Android and Linux-based mobile devices. This project is NOT FOR THE EPOC neuroheadset model.

    The project is at https://github.com/SmartphoneBrainScanner
    You can see it in action on a Nokia N900 phone here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_66KAOzXhU

    You may need to root the devices and reflash the firmware to support the HIDraw Host Mode profile required by Emotiv USB receiver, however many devices already support the profile.

    You will also need to contact Emotiv Support to obtain a critical module to decode the data - only Research, Education and Enterprise Plus licensees can access the module.
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  • 10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter!
    Wired names Emotiv Lifesciences in 10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter!

    PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments. Levchin is one of several Silicon Valley luminaries who have talked big about the tech industry's timidity. So starting yet another payments company seemed decidedly unambitious.

    Yet plenty of companies out there are still taking a run at the next moonshot. Their technologies don't let you share photos or offer you a deal on your next manicure. Instead, these companies could change the world in deep ways by solving tough problems, rather than the kind of "problems" too many startups make up as justifcations for the "solutions" they're trying to sell. Not that photo-sharing isn't great (Levchin did that, too). Unlike what the companies that follow are trying to do, however, it's not exactly shooting for the moon.

    Above: Emotiv Lifescience
    You don't get much closer to a moonshot than "let's build a machine that reads people's minds." Even if Emotiv Lifescience's brainwave scanner was just for use as a videogame controller, the company's aspirations would still be ambitious. But when you start talking about a brain-controlled wheelchair, you're entering the territory of technology that matters.

    Read the fulll article here: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/10-companies-chasing-innovations-that-really-matter/#slideid-76561
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  • The Brain in the City!
    The brain in the city
    POSTED BY RICHARD COYNE ? MARCH 9, 2013 ? 4 COMMENTS
    FILED UNDER BRAIN, EEG, LANDSCAPE
    How does the space you are in affect the way you feel? We’ve just published an article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (Online First edition) outlining our results from a study using head-mounted EEG (electroencephalography) technology worn by people walking about outdoors in Edinburgh. We think this is a first. Such studies usually take place in a laboratory, with human subjects sitting in front of a computer monitor and looking at pictures of city streets and landscapes. In our study we took the EEG technology out into the field.

    The research was undertaken by Panos Mavros, Jenny Roe, Peter Aspinall, and me, Richard Coyne. As researchers in architecture, environmental psychology, health studies and urban design we are interested in the relationship between the environment and emotions. We conducted a study using mobile EEG as a method to record and analyze the emotional experience of people walking in 3 types of urban environment including parkland.

    Read the full article here: http://richardcoyne.com/2013/03/09/the-brain-in-the-city/
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  • Two Events for BAW with Suzanne Dikker and Marina Abramovic!
    This coming Wednesday 3/14 Suzanne Dikker will be on the Brian Lehrer Show at 11am (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/) to talk about art/neuroscience. Marina Abramovic and Brian Lehrer will (hopefully) be wearing Emotiv headsets and Suzanne will run a little 'experiment' on them about how in sync their brains are. Listeners can watch the EEG and the interface Suzanne made on the website during and after the show.

    Suzanne is also running a workshop for BAW at the American Museum of Natural History this coming weekend (3/16 and 3/17):
    https://www.facebook.com/events/100175640170688/
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  • March 11-17th is Brain Awareness Week!
    Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research.

    Receive 15% off a Research Edition SDK: http://emotiv.com/store/sdk/bci/research-edition-sdk/


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    Receive 10% off a Developer Edition SDK:
    http://emotiv.com/store/sdk/bci/developer-edition-sdk/

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  • Great article on Biofeedback art!
    This article was wirtten by Crystal Kim.

    A great work of art has the power to change a viewer’s perception, but in the cutting edge world of “biofeedback art,” the viewer’s perception changes the work. Technology is deployed to “read” how viewers are reacting to the artwork; the reactions are then fed back into the art installation, triggering the work to morph into something else.

    Earlier this year, participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos got a taste of this rising art movement when Drue Kataoka (visit: www.drue.net), a Silicon Valley-based artist, brought her interactive work to the elite Alpine event. She argues that being based among tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley allows her to “witness creative disruption firsthand,” which helps her sustain a creative edge.

    Kataoka first asked the movers and shakers in the WEF hall to slip on electroencephalography or EEG headsets to interact with the countertop-sized installation she had set up. As viewers looked at the Tree of Pascal —a triangular prism surrounded by panels of Sumi-e paintings – a pane of “smart glass” facing the audience reflected what was happening inside their heads, via the EEG headsets. Kataoka then asked them to think personally meaningful moments and their brain activity became more intense. As the ever-more active brainwaves were fed into the “smart glass,” it moved from opaque to clear.

    In this way, sunlight finally passed through the now clear glass, and the small tree that was housed within the installation had a chance to live another day. That, at least, is the idea behind the work. The tree, says Kataoka, can symbolize something different for each individual —nature, humanity, a family or even a company or project.

    “Drue’s work has a very special edge to it, combining art and science in a very profound way,” said Hilde Schwab, wife of WEF’s founder and chairman, Klaus Schwab. While Kataoka wants the Tree of Pascal to wind up at a museum, she is in talks with interested collectors for similar installations. She imagines creating entire ceilings made of smart glass; a portrait will appear and disappear, according to the resident’s mood. Next up for Kataoka: biofeedback art that relies on smell and the olfactory senses.

    Read the full article here: http://blogs.barrons.com/penta/2013/03/07/biofeedback-art/
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  • BCI helping give new life to young woman
    Our friends Roslyn McCoy and Cora Lovio were featured in the Mt. Shasta News today!

    Thirty year old Cora Lovio breaks into a broad smile as Roslyn McCoy compliments her on moving an object on the computer screen with her brain waves. She laughs and is clearly excited at her success. The simple video game, however, is more than just entertainment.

    Diagnosed as clinically "semi-vegetative" after a car accident when she was 18 years old, Cora is interacting with the world in the only way she can, through brain computer interface technology. Using 14 connection points on the head, the Emotiv EEG neuroheadset uses a set of sensors to tune into electric signals produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expressions and connects wirelessly to a computer.

    Before McCoy entered the family's life, however, Cora simply sat without any controlled movement or meaningful interaction with the world. Tricia, Cora's mother, says McCoy's work with Cora over the last two years has made a huge difference.
    "She's so much better since high school. The high school provided some services to age 21, but it wasn't very effective. Now she has more head control, her eyes are together more and track really well and she has movement in her arms and legs," Tricia said. "She has more control over her voice other than just making noises. She reaches out like she is really trying to give a hug. Anyone who knew her and had not seen her in two years would say, 'Wow.'"

    Follow the link to read more about Cora's journey and Roslyn's work. http://www.mtshastanews.com/article/20130306/NEWS/130309898?refresh=true#art-tit&refresh=true


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  • Sign Up for the Next Webinar: March 5!
    Tuesday, March 5- We'll be hosting our next webinar!

    Learn the basics of conducting EEG research with Emotiv from our very own GMac! This session is the first in a three part series on exploring EEG with Emotiv's neuroheadset.

    Register here: http://emotiv.com/ideas/events/
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