'Battle for your brain': What the rise of brain-computer interface technology means for you
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Computer brain interfaces used to be the stuff of science fiction. Now, headphones and earbuds with sensors that can read your brain waves – and sell your data – are hitting the market. Experts say it’s the time to establish rules of the road.
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| 0:00.0 | Wearable tech, your Fitbit, Smartwatch and the like, they can already do things like |
| 0:09.1 | measure your heart rate or how well you're sleeping just based on how you're moving or |
| 0:14.0 | signals through your skin. |
| 0:16.7 | So what do you think the next frontier might be in wearable tech? |
| 0:21.0 | The next new thing devices can monitor and measure. |
| 0:25.8 | Think about it. Really think. |
| 0:30.6 | I use my earbuds every day because I want to know how my brain changes based on all |
| 0:36.4 | of the things that I do because my brain is changing all the time. |
| 0:39.8 | It's the most sophisticated learning apparatus that we have. |
| 0:43.4 | So I use my earbuds as a way to understand what's happening to my brain as I play with |
| 0:49.4 | my daughter, hang out with my cat, listen to music, work and it's really interesting. |
| 0:55.6 | I learn a lot about myself. |
| 0:57.0 | I learn a lot about what makes me happy and perform better and when I'm really stressed |
| 1:04.4 | what impact that has on me. |
| 1:07.6 | This is Tan Lee, co-founder and CEO of Emotive, one of a new crop of companies that sees |
| 1:13.4 | great potential in BCI or brain computer interface technology. |
| 1:20.0 | Lee believes the possibilities for such tech are endless, helping the elderly experience |
| 1:24.7 | in cognitive decline, empowering the disabled community to perform actions simply through |
| 1:29.6 | thinking, even helping you understand yourself better. |
| 1:34.4 | How to be happier or more efficient. |
| 1:37.8 | Lee says brain computer interface tech will one day be able to do all of these things |
| 1:43.2 | through major advances in miniaturized electroencephalography technology or EEG, which can read |
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