In
20th century it takes so much of time to take photo with a normal
camera as we have to open the shutter and then click on the button. In this
span of time the incident may disappear. So to overcome this problem a latest
technological device called Neurocam has been introduced.
Neurocam system includes a headband equipped to hold an
iphone next to the wearer’s temple. The phone is fitted with a special prism so
that the camera can record footage from the wearer’s point of view. The headset
also includes EEG sensors that can scan your brain for correlative spikes in
interest. The Neurocam iphone application assigns the EEG data a value from 0 to 100.
Fig: Electroencephalography reading
Neurocam uses brain wave sensorslike as in the moving cat
ears and TV navigation, but this time hooks up with your smart phone camera.
This prototype, demoned at last week at Japan’s Human sensing 2013 conference
gauges your interest on a scale of 0 to 100 and if your brain wave redout tops
60, it will start to record video, eventually transforming the footage into
five second GIFs. In order to get the iphone camera to eye-view, the smartphone
connects to a headband which houses the brainwave sensor. Sideways on the
camera sensor then faces through a prism so its looking at what you are looking
at…and not just inside of your ear.
Fig: Neurocam system
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Fig: wearing of Neurocam system
The
experimental wearable, barring the smartphone hanging off, looks pretty similar
to other brain wave reading wearables, although the addition of an I phone will
certainly make it weighter in comparision. The neurocam is the latest product
to come from the neurowear project, which already gave us the aforementioned
Nekomimi cat ears. We are not sure how comfortable we’d feel having all those
radio waves near to our need for an extended period, although according to Digi
info news, this device, including its current design and shape are still in the
throes of development for now. The world always needs more GIFs.
It
may look like poor man’s Google glass, but don’t let the iphone strapped to the
side of your head thing fool you, neurocam and its accompanying app may
foretell the future of advertising.
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Fig: Necomimi cat ears
Fig: screen of iphone while recording
Before the introduction of this
Neurocam the status of a person is recognized based on the different types of
waves produced by the brain. For every type of wave produced by the brain the
mood of a person is stated. But now based on the frequency range of the brain
waves the meter reading of the neurocam varies.
Fig: Different types of brain waves
Because
this system is hands free, we think it could capture a life log, which would be
different from deliberately pressing a shutter to capture things you like. As
an application in a B2B environment Neurocam could determine what goods in
stores interest people. And because the information includes position data, you
can do mapping, so it could also show what places people are interested in as
an aid for urban development planning. We think it could be used in lots of
ways like that.
The
algorithm for quantifying brain waves was co-developed by Associate professor
Yasue Mitsukura at Keio University.
It
is probably not a good idea to wear the camera during speed dating or shopping
though you’d probably end up with way to many unnecessary GIFs. Not to mention
you will look ridiculous.
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