This wearable brain computer is designed to promote focus and productivity
Electrodes have been used to measure brain activity since the last century. EEG, or rather electroencephalography, is one of the most used techniques, mostly non-invasive, to measure neural activity.
EEG to measure brain activity
THEEEG It essentially records brain activity through electrodes placed on the scalp. Changes within the brain can be measured (and analyzed) in milliseconds.
The ability to concentrate appears to reside in the frontal lobe of the brain: two engineers have designed a wearable EEG device called Crown to measure that area of the brain, helping maintain concentration and increase productivity.
AJ Keller e Alex Castillo, a recent past in Netflix and Boeing, are the proponents of this device which uses data from our brain activity to "organize peace of mind".
Crown
Crown, of neurosity, it helps to maintain the concentration of the brain by measuring not only what activates it, but also what sustains it.
You place it on your head, just like a crown, and start doing its job. Weighs just over half a kilo, one size fits all.
Crown's eight EEG sensors track and monitor the user's brain activity to better understand what maintains focus and what introduces distraction.
Observer of brain activity, guardian of the mind
As brain waves are measured, the Neurosity Shift app keeps watch over our concentration. It connects to your Spotify account to play the music best suited to maintaining that state of mind, or reduces technological distractions by resetting notifications and ringtones.
Periodically, Crown sends a sort of "report card" which indicates the moments in which there was greater concentration and those of greater distraction.
A sort of coach who evaluates our commitment by reading our brain activity.
Ah! Obviously the device does not store and record your brain activity, it does not send it to some server, to some machine learning system or even to interested third parties.
