After all, the company's goal is to help improve your cognitive function, memory, and decrease stress by using its headband and software. While others will be able to create games and the like using Muse's SDK, planned updates to the official software will look at data accumulated over the long term and how users might benefit from different and regular mental work-outs - like a fitness tracker for your grey matter. There's also a 'gamification' element that awards points based on how long you were able to hold an engaged, albeit relaxed state.Īccumulating points over time unlocks more advanced features, but InteraXon really wants you to set personal goals after you've 'completed' this process.

Following your timed session - ours was three minutes, but you can increase this - the app follows up with some stats. The more zoned-in you become, the lighter the wind, and sustained periods of concentrated calm will even coax birds to land on the beach. A lady with the soothing voice of a classical radio DJ, who has guided you up to this point, requests that you close your eyes, focus on your breathing, and relax.

The grand finale is a beach scene that reacts to your mental state. These go from making sure the headband is fitted properly and all sensors are registering brain function, to asking you to think about different topics for determining what your 'noisy' mind looks like. The app, which we experienced on an iPad mini, starts with a couple of calibration exercises. What the company has built over the past year, however, is much more polished. Last year, we saw a basic demo whereby changes in our brain activity triggered different events in a wintery scene. To make use of the hardware, InteraXon has, of course, developed companion software for iOS and Android (the band communicates with mobile devices via Bluetooth). The band itself is available for pre-order for 270 bucks, with the first units expected to start shipping in spring. These make wearing the headband perfectly comfortable, but otherwise, its form factor remains unchanged. The EEG sensors in contact with your forehead - seven in total, measuring four channels - are now made of conductive ink instead of cold metal, the whole thing is more flexible, and rubbery cushions have been added to its ends.

We first came across Muse this time last year, and in terms of hardware, only minor changes have been made. After all, it's the last day of CES, and although this editor wasn't sure he had any working neurons left, he nevertheless took a trip to InteraXon's booth to check out the consumer-ready version of Muse, the mind-probing headband. If you think the person above looks weathered, broken and a little bit ill, you'd be right.

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