Brain-Reading Headphones: How Neurable Technology Measures Attention and Health.

According to Vox: Recently, when I really needed to get something done, I would put on special headphones that can 'read my thoughts'. Well, at least a little. The headphones are equipped with a brain-computer interface that reads electrical signals from my brain and uses algorithms to interpret them. When my attention starts to wane, the headphones sense it, and the app prompts me to take a break.

This sounds like something out of science fiction, but the startup Neurable, founded ten years ago, is working on the technology and is preparing to expand the integration into more gadgets. Headphones, glasses, helmets - anything that can allow electrodes to come close to your head can provide real-time data about what is happening internally. Neurable technology uses a combination of electroencephalography (EEG) sensors to collect brain data and algorithms to interpret it. Besides measuring attention, the company is currently using this data to track and improve brain health.

This could one day reveal symptoms of depression or, on a much more significant front, early signs of Alzheimer's disease.

I want to emphasize again that this technology does not actually read your thoughts in the sense of understanding your thoughts. But it does know when you are distracted or losing focus and could one day detect symptoms of depression or, on a much more significant front, early signs of Alzheimer's disease.

Neurable is developing the MW75 Neuro headphones, which are capable of measuring attention and helping to develop technologies for tracking and improving brain health using signals from the brain and algorithms to analyze them.