You're listening to Bullproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that Google Glass, those funky augmented reality glasses,

is showing promise as a tool to help kids with autism better navigate social situations.

And as someone who has or at least had the symptoms of Asprey goes syndrome as a kid, they

didn't really have a formal diagnosis when I was a kid.

I definitely would have appreciated some technology guidance for social situations.

And there's a new smartphone app that pairs your Google Glass headset with facial recognition

software so the wear gets real time updates on what emotions people are expressing.

Because believe it or not, when you're on the spectrum like that, you have no idea what

the person across from you is feeling, but you would know if something told you that face equals

this emotion, which would be really cool for a lot of people.

Most kids just naturally learn to do this without thinking by playing.

And because with autism, don't really get it and they have to learn.

In my case, I spent a lot of time in my early 20s going to business networking meetings and

making an asset myself until I figured out how to play the game right.

And I've hacked my brain at the biological level and with a lot of neurofeedback.

So I actually can read emotions a lot better than I ever did, but man, I wish I would have

had some technology to do that, which is just really cool.

In a pilot trial, 14 kids used the program for just over 10 weeks.

And after the treatment, they had improved social skills, increased eye contact and the ability

to decode facial expressions.

That is a really cool use of technology that's never been done before.

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