Music
is the food for soul and it really helps in uplifting our mood. A study
shows that listening to music can reduce your pain and enhance your
efficiency. Music industry is thriving at the moment. From a handful of
genres, today we have unlimited number of them. A Japanese company,
Neurowear, has come up with an ingenious idea; their creation will help
you select the perfect song as per your mood without you having to do
anything at all. They are calling it the Mico mind-reading headphones.
Yes, you read it right. These are indeed mind reading headphones. You no
longer need to scroll through your playlist to find the song that would
suit your mood. The headphones are designed so that they can scan your
brain and select and play the perfect song according to their findings.
The
gadget is made up of two parts; one relatively big headphone and an
iPhone app. Headphones are equipped with a sensor for forehead whose
function is to analyze the brain waves in order to detect user’s mood.
Afterwards, it connects to the Mico database with help of the iPhone
application and chooses the song which matches perfectly to the user’s
current state from a list of Neuro-tagged tunes. If during playback you
feel like your mood has changed and you don’t want to keep listening to
the track, just shake your phone and the sensor will erase previous mood
data and scan your brain again for any mood changes. These strange and
unique headphones come with built in LED indicators which are able to
convey your mood by using icons to all those around you. As of now, they
have an exclamation mark if you’re focused, a ‘zzz’ indication when
you’re sleepy and a cross that depicts that the user is stressed.
Neurowear is hopeful to come up with the product that is ready to take
on the market in the near future, however, as of now; this device is
still at prototype stage. Currently, there are only one hundred songs in
the music database, however, as per Engadget, the possibility of
partnering up with Spotify or other such services is being considered to
expand the music database. We believe they would also work towards the
design to make the headphones more compact and slim.
Music
is the food for soul and it really helps in uplifting our mood. A study
shows that listening to music can reduce your pain and enhance your
efficiency. Music industry is thriving at the moment. From a handful of
genres, today we have unlimited number of them. A Japanese company,
Neurowear, has come up with an ingenious idea; their creation will help
you select the perfect song as per your mood without you having to do
anything at all. They are calling it the Mico mind-reading headphones.
Yes, you read it right. These are indeed mind reading headphones. You no
longer need to scroll through your playlist to find the song that would
suit your mood. The headphones are designed so that they can scan your
brain and select and play the perfect song according to their findings.
The
gadget is made up of two parts; one relatively big headphone and an
iPhone app. Headphones are equipped with a sensor for forehead whose
function is to analyze the brain waves in order to detect user’s mood.
Afterwards, it connects to the Mico database with help of the iPhone
application and chooses the song which matches perfectly to the user’s
current state from a list of Neuro-tagged tunes. If during playback you
feel like your mood has changed and you don’t want to keep listening to
the track, just shake your phone and the sensor will erase previous mood
data and scan your brain again for any mood changes. These strange and
unique headphones come with built in LED indicators which are able to
convey your mood by using icons to all those around you. As of now, they
have an exclamation mark if you’re focused, a ‘zzz’ indication when
you’re sleepy and a cross that depicts that the user is stressed.
Neurowear is hopeful to come up with the product that is ready to take
on the market in the near future, however, as of now; this device is
still at prototype stage. Currently, there are only one hundred songs in
the music database, however, as per Engadget, the possibility of
partnering up with Spotify or other such services is being considered to
expand the music database. We believe they would also work towards the
design to make the headphones more compact and slim.
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