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New Light on Improving Brain Function
Focus, focus, focus…Focus is challenging in a world of seemingly infinite tabs and multiple devices with their ever-distracting notifications. Enter Mendi with its neurofeedback product that promises to help its users improve their brain health. This means sharpened focus, better sleep, and enhanced mood control by improving the brain’s neuroplasticity. From Mendo’s website: “Neuroplasticity is…
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The Space Agent Helper for the Long Distance Voyager
Beyond the excitement of the launch, seeing the universe from a new perspective, and discovering new worlds, an astronaut’s daily routine is mundane. A 3-year round trip to Mars, as NASA estimates, is a long time to be alone. As such, the mental health of astronauts is a concern of NASA. Enter Coreod Space and…
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The Earphone Brainwave Sensor & Trainer
Imagine slipping on a pair of ordinary-looking earphones, but instead of just pumping out tunes, they’re reading your brainwaves and using them to enhance your experience. This is the reality that Vie Style is bringing to life with its innovative earphone brainwave sensor and trainer. A Trip Through Your Own Mind: In the above interview,…
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Better Sleep Through Aided Meditation
“The intrusion of technology into our homes and bedrooms is claimed by many of my research colleagues to be robbing of us of precious sleep, and I agree,” wrote Matthew Walker, PhD in chapter 16 of his bestselling 2017 book, Why We Sleep.* At the same time, Walker believed that it would be possible to…
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The Professor with the Electronic Tattoo #CES2017
In what may be the ultimate wearable, Rotex’s electronic tattoo is a hair-thin, stretchable dry sensor for measuring things, such as electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyogram (EMG), electroencephalogram (EEG), skin temperature, and skin hydration. It conforms to the skin, like a temporary tattoo, so it blends into the skin. It currently receives its power and communicates via…
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The Meditation App & Headband
With the buzzing of text message alerts, the temptation to check social media and the knowledge that an answer to a fleeting thought is a search away, the conventional wisdom is that technology can be distracting and an impediment to focus. Ariel Garten has a solution that uses these same tools to help people improve…
