NEWRON Volume VI, Issue II
NEWRON Admin
NeuroEngineering Weekly Review of News
Hey NEWRON Subscribers,
First off, it’s been quite a week with all the exciting gadgets and gizmos coming out of CES 2013. Read about brain-controlled helicopters below!
Second, a reminder to email newro...@gmail.com about upcoming conferences or events to advertise to the NEWRON community. Any abstracts sent in for upcoming conferences or talks will be distributed in the next issue of NEWRON. Free advertising!
Enjoy,
Mike Batista
NEWRON Editor and Manager
Reviews
CES 2013: Mind-controlled helicopters, games for kids with ADHD
NeuroSky, teaming up with Puzzlebox, hopes to turn electrical impulses produced by customers’ gray matter into a mainstream consumer brand by pairing its headset with gadgets and games dreamed up by outside developers. “More innovation happens outside the office than internally,” claims NeuroSky’s sales head, David Westendorf. “With an open development strategy, we embrace the competition and bring it into the fold instead of alienating it.”
Read more:
CES 2013: Interaxon’s Muse measures your brainwaves to improve mental health
Ontario, Canada based Interaxon showed off Muse, a brainwave-sensing headband designed to help you improve your mental and emotional health. It accomplishes this with four sensors in the headband that essentially use EEG technology. An app takes the raw EEG data and translates it into useful information.
Read more:
Researchers build new bridges for brain injury
Lab-grown nerve fibers could help a battered body heal itself
In the January 2013 issue of Scientific American, D. Kacy Cullen and Douglas H. Smith of the University of Pennsylvania reported on their work using stretch-grown axons (the long thin "arm" of a nerve cell) to some day connect prosthetic devices to the peripheral nervous systems of people who had to have part of their arm amputated. These "living bridges" could also be used to help people with devastating injuries.
Read more: