The popular Google Glass executes commands through thought , with the help of an innovative application
Mind recognition technology is starting to move from the labs to the market: a British company has unveiled an application that connects Google Glass to wearable electroencephalographs, giving the user the ability to take photos with the power of thought.
London-based startup This Place is offering its MindRDR software for free to attract developers who could develop new applications.
The app allows Google's electronic glasses to be connected to another gadget, the Neurosky," which costs 71 pounds (90 euros). The wearable, lightweight device includes electrodes that fit on the head and read brain signals related to concentration.
To take photos and upload them to Twitter, the user must focus their thoughts until a white line appears on the Glass screen and moves.
Inconvenient system, needs further improvement
The system is, however, somewhat "clumsy" and constitutes a "rudimentary viable product, a first step that should be developed further," as commented by a TechCrunch reporter who attended a demonstration of the technology at This Place's offices.
The electroencephalography (EEG) devices currently on the market are mainly used in games, while the equipment used in research on the mental control of computers and prosthetic limbs is much more expensive and bulky.
But technology is advancing rapidly, and This Place is optimistic that its software could be used in the future by surgeons or patients with mobility problems.
" Although MindRDR's current capabilities are limited to taking and posting photos, the prospects for 'teleportation' on Google Glass are limitless ," a company spokesperson told the BBC
Google, for its part, clarified that it has no opinion on MindRDR, nor does it offer it through the Glass app store, as it has not tested it to date.
"We are of course interested in hearing about new applications for Glass and we have already seen amazing research efforts in a variety of medical fields, from surgery to Parkinson's disease," a spokesperson told the BBC.
Source: tovima.gr
