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Today, Boston-based company Neurable announced the launch of its smart headphones, dubbed the MW75 Neuro, which use electroencephalography, or EEG, and artificial intelligence to track the wearers focus levels by reading their brain waves..
Neurables device primarily measures this alpha and beta wave activity, using AI to decode brainwave data into focus information..
I turned to W. Hong Yeo, a biomedical engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology who develops wearable brainwave-reading devices, to get an outside perspective on whether EEG is really sensitive enough to know when Im focused and when Im not...
And whenever theres any motion, youre not going to get good contact with the skin, so your EEG signal may not be captured, Yeo says.. Because Neurable isnt making any health claims, its headset doesnt have to be as rigorously tested as a medical device..
Molnar explains that the headset converts raw EEG data into focus information, anonymizes it, deletes the raw data on the device, and sends it to the app..
