{"id":17593,"date":"2015-09-21T02:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/control-google-glass-with-your-mind-and-a-second-headset"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:38:33","slug":"control-google-glass-with-your-mind-and-a-second-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/control-google-glass-with-your-mind-and-a-second-headset","title":{"rendered":"Control Google Glass with your mind\u2026 and a second headset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"384\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/99915694\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"630\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Up until now, you can only navigate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/06\/30\/uk-cinemas-ban-google-glass-piracy\/\">Google Glass<\/a> by touching or talking to it, but London-based firm This Place just made it possible to control the device using something else: your brainwaves. The company just released an open source application called MindRDR that gives you something akin to very, <em>very<\/em> limited telekinetic abilities \u2014 so long as you have both Google Glass and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/09\/21\/neurowear-wants-to-read-your-mind-geotag-your-feelings\/\">Neurosky\u2019s<\/a> EEG biosensor headset. See, MindRDR serves as the bridge that connects the two, translating the brain activity from the EEG biosensor into executable commands for the high-tech eyewear. At the moment, the software can only take pictures and upload them to either Facebook or Twitter, but This Place released the app for free <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThisPlace\/MindRDR\">on GitHub<\/a> in hopes that other developers will use it for more advanced projects.<\/p>\n<p>MindRDR shows up as a thin white line on Glass\u2019s screen, which moves upwards the more the user concentrates. Once that line reaches the very top, it snaps a picture of whatever you want \u2014 you simply need to repeat the process to upload the image to a social network. In the future, though, its creators believe that the app could be a huge help to people who can\u2019t move on their own. These include quadriplegics, those with multiple sclerosis, and especially those suffering from locked-in syndrome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/07\/09\/mindrdr-google-glass-neurosky\/?ncid=rss_truncated&utm_campaign=socialmedia_fb&utm_source=socialmedia_fb\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until now, you can only navigate Google Glass by touching or talking to it, but London-based firm This Place just made it possible to control the device using something else: your brainwaves. The company just released an open source application called MindRDR that gives you something akin to very, very limited telekinetic abilities \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64144,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions\/64144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}