Comments on: Brain controlled fluid simulation

By: Randi

Randi — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:01:07 +0000

Thanks for this. Do you have any other tips that are related to meditation at all?

By: meditation forums

meditation forums — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:37:32 +0000

Thanks for this! I’ve been learning over at the Brainwave Entrainment Forums, and viewing this post was the exact confirmation for much of the information I observed. :)

By: brain wave

brain wave — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:56:00 +0000

Thanks for this. Do you have any other tips that are connected to meditation at all?

By: zapgun

zapgun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:49:40 +0000

Ah here’s a teardown of the headset. http://hackaday.com/2008/09/19/open-source-neural-activity-monitors/
Sorry for the mistype above. Should read, “The SMR strip that runs from one ear to the other over the top of the head is a good location for brain/motor activity. It is used for neurofeedback entrainment.”

By: zapgun

zapgun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:45:01 +0000

I don’t think the OCZ/NIA is using much brain wave activity. For one it is very difficult to get a good EEG even when you are sitting still. Also the positioning of the electrodes isn’t quite where you want to pick up good EEG signals. You can monitor some frontal lobe activity but not anything very significant. The SMR strip that runs from one ear to another over the top of the head. Electromyogram and electrooculogram are not brain wave sampling techniques. They are only the electrical activity of the muscles surrounding the eyes. This is notoriously difficult to control consciously. The OpenEEG project is something I’d like to see wired into this. Overall a neat hack but mistitled.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:25:42 +0000

Can’t we just make some coffee?

Then I can get some fluid controlled brain stimulation!

By: jdubs

jdubs — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:29:36 +0000

the multitouch system they are using is from nortd- you can check it out here: touchkit.nortd.com

By: j

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:58:36 +0000

that guy is freaking me out and i don’t even have the sound on (dude man dude!)

By: louis ii

louis ii — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:14:00 +0000

It’s interesting seeing the screen change before his face does as he begins a mental plan to change his expression suddenly.

“Your thoughts betray you…”

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:34:15 +0000

Hmmm, if you could hook that to a monitoring system with a little more juice/ wasn’t easily available on the market for silly silly gamers you could probably do better.

That being said, I’d like to see it used during sleep.

By: beanpolev

beanpolev — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:19:19 +0000

@queeg

Awesome, thanks!

@tim
actually, the NIA doesn’t work by thinking really hard. IIRC, you have to calibrate it by moving certain body parts so that it recognizes the signal for moving that part. for example, if you wanted to, say, make it send the signal equivalent to the W key on a keyboard, you could tilt your head forward. Thats why the guy in the video was dancing around like that, he had calibrated the NIA to react to those signals

By: cynic

cynic — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:15:13 +0000

@tim

Not unless you practice hard. I’ve read a few reviews and though it’s supposed to be able to detect eye movement and actual brainwave fluctuations rather than just the tensing and relaxing of facial muscles, as shown here, you need to practice every day for a long long time.
I still want one.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:51:39 +0000

@beanpolev

According to Shazam…

Julianese
Alphabass/Mascarimir
Album: Tarantatrance

Reminds me of the stuff I hear in a Turkish suburb of Amsterdam.

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:40:14 +0000

hack-a-day needs an upgrade

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:31:24 +0000

Song is cool. Navier-stokes is so 20th century. I want one of those mind activity input thingies though! Can they do anything more than “thinking really hard”/”not thinking” yet?