EEG headset makes surfing brain's waves easier | Health Tech - CNET News

A prototype wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) headset debuts this week at the Medical Device and Manufacturing conference and exhibition in Anaheim, Calif., and European developers IMEC and Holst Centre say it could lead to not just neuro-feedback but improved safety (no more sleeping behind the wheel) and entertainment (real-time video game adjustments based on the user's mood).

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EEG headset makes surfing brain's waves easier | Health Tech - CNET News

How It Works - Thought-controlled computing - Interaxon

Your brain generates electrical patterns that resonate outside your head, which accumulate into brainwaves detectable by an Electroencephalograph (EEG). The EEG can't read your thoughts, just your brain's overall pattern of activity, like how relaxed or alert you are. With practice you can learn to manipulate your brainwave pattern, like flexing a muscle you've never used before.

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Electric thinking cap? Flash of fresh insight by electrical brain stimulation

Yet another example of futuristic plotlines coming to fruition: New scientific research suggests that by stimulating parts of their brains electrically, people can be induced to think more creatively than they normally do.

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