A robotic cat ears for humans, a test of the ears

To me the robotic Cat ears--publicly, no less!(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
After viewing, dog or cat, tail wagging or arched backwards, you can immediately tip you can into the animal's mood. The technology enables as easy to read people?
This is the idea behind Necomimi, a pair of brain-wave sensors and a robotic Cat ears by the Japanese company Neurowear. Fuzzy ears sheets are built atop the headset technology created by based on San Jose, Calif. NeuroSky. Is based on Electroencephalography from a single sensor, mounted on the forehead to read a person's brain waves and communicates with a PC or Mac with USB plug-in wireless network to determine if a person is focused and relaxed. If the user is focused, the attached ears stay preparation. When relaxed ears face down.
Earlier this year Neurowear made a video of the ears which cutesey became a hit for small Web generate views of 1,6 million (many people can probably identify as a girl in the video, check out the attractive guy and intolerable robotic ears). Neurowear in the original intent was to make only one pair, but when it was so much online, gimmick, the company decided to produce a line of robotic ears.

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Tansy Brook, Advocate of NeuroSky, visited CNET, based in San Francisco earlier this month show beyond the third prototype of ears and give me a chance to try them.
Naturally, my first question was, "these things work?" Headset NeuroSky MindWave I clipped to my ear, to place the sensor scans of the brain, the reader against My forehead. (Petal earlobe picks up ambient noise alone, as the head, so the ear clip is used for the purpose of cancelling noise). In the theory of brain State can be detected by measuring brain activity patterns. This gadget claims to measure brain waves as an indicator of the mood: If a person is brain waves will concentrate, in the range 12 to 30 Hz, says NeuroSky. If they're relaxed, the brain waves to measure from the scope of 8 and 12 Hz.
In my case, the headset does not match, so the sensor had trouble picking a stepwise mood. However, when I get closer to the sensor to my forehead is used to create a stronger, ears seemed better reacts. In most ears stayed in preparation which apparently meant that I was focused. I tried, the rest going to the ears, but found difficult to stay in control. Probably fully RESTful afforded me during the interview because it was attempting a concurrent. Stephen Beacham, television producer, CNET, try to use the ears and had a much easier time of their positions. He even spin with her ears (impressive!).
Of course, that the work is one thing the ears. Whether people will ever wear them in public is another.
When I had a furry ears on the street, people stopped and stared, probably wondering if I was some wannabe cyborg Playboy Bunny. When I asked them to try their ears hesitated. Apparently this sort thing is more accepted in Japan--where the function of fuzzy cat ears in otaku subcultures centered on anime and manga wydarzenaimi--than it did on the streets of San Francisco.
The technology used in funky ears represents the known technical advanced course; After an expensive and large brain scanning devices are becoming smaller and cheaper. And that opens the door to potential new uses of the consumer.
EmSense, another company of San Francisco Bay Area, makes the headset which can be measured, how consumers respond to content such as games and advertising. But mobile brain waves with gadgets go beyond pelvic enthusiasm of the consumer. Another, based on California, the company uses equipment Neurovigil named iBrain sleep patterns to the record. Can quickly be used as a term many neurological conditions, as well as.
Any user can modify the headset NeuroSky; If you don't like Cat ears, you can build one of the devil ears. But designers and companies were significantly more creative with their hacks Brook said, adding that the headset is now used in toys Mattel Mindflex and is used by over 150 universities in the world for educational purposes.
Meaning that the headset can be used to help people perform better. For example, if you're the lekkoatlety training programme for the coming competition or student want to measure how well it is concentrating on the job, you can use the headset to track mental state. My collection to add is that the ears are interesting, but perhaps the reason that people don't have, tails twitching. In fact, we don't want people could read our mood at a glance.

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