Control Google Glass with your brainwaves: New app & device
TECHNOLOGY
Google Glass controlled by brainwaves: New app & device
New technology allows wearers of Google's new headset device, Google Glass, to use their brainwaves to control the device. Photography is the first area of application.
By just thinking about it, you can take a photo and upload it to Facebook or Twitter.
The MindRDR ("mindreader) app uses an EEG headband to measure electrical activity in the brain and convert these signals into instructions for Google Glass. Google Glass is usually controlled by voice commands or by a touchpad.
EEG headsets (here, here, here, here) measure increased levels of activity in parts of the brain and the MindRDR software measures concentration. As a user concentrates, a white line in the Google Glass screen rises up and when it reaches the top, the device takes a photo.
That you can get the content you want just by thinking about what you want, this is the ultimate goal of this technology.
In the future, this technology may be able to help disabled people interact with the world, for example, people suffering from locked-in syndrome or quadriplegia. To encourage new revolutionary applications of the technology, the MindRDR software is being released as free "open source" software to software developers.