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Biofeeback – Personal Informatics Devices and Gadgets

Sleep

WakeMate – wireless wristband with accompanying iPhone app and website uses an accelerometer to analyze sleep and integrates with iPhone alarm clock app to wake you up when you’re supposedly ready.  View charts of your sleep data online. Review in Wired here.
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach – headband with silver layer that picks up electromagnetic brain [...]

binaural beats!!!!!

http://www.i-dose.us/
This seems like a logical way in. into the analog brain state that is. Suggestions???

Proposal: Mind Borrowing Machine

Based on the brainstorm begun here, and further informed by the copy and paste of a face exhibited here, here’s a proposal for a Mind Borrowing Machine.  There are mind donors and mind consumers.  The mind donors are extraordinary people, like Buddhist monks, Rock musicians, athletes, celebrities, and other inspirational folks who are willing to [...]

Brain Candy

Here is a great interface called cyberlink brainfingers. It apparently can differentiate between alpha and beta waves in addition to sensing muscle activity on the face…it appears there are seven channels….so here is the perfect interface with 7 channels of analog input to control something….like ???
maybe a visual display

Analog Gain: 200,000
Noise At Front End: [...]

Neurosky Mindset

The Neurosky Mindset taps into your brainwaves and allows you to watch trippy graphics while you think.  It looks more or less like a set of wireless headphones with a theremin attached to it.
Interestingly, they provide a set of open programming APIs that allow independent developers to more easily create software that interacts with the [...]

Dream to Wake Transitions

There are multiple reasons to address this transition between states of consciousness:
1. Improve sleep/wake/circadian rhythms
2. Improve recall of dreams
3. Understand the mechanisms of memory recall
4. Address the subtle levels of energy that manifest in the dream state
5. increase ability for lucid dreaming
There are multiple brain-machine interfaces that could be created based on products such as:
a [...]

Bio Feedback

We need an interface with bodily/brain function….look at this gimmick:
http://www.heartmath.com/
People use this to maintain control over stress response.