There's value to patience. They're here! Thank you Cody for another fantastic and well-balanced perspective. I love your comment about innovation in the headphone industry. Marcus should invite you to his podcast especially before CES since NeuroTech is growing rapidly. The Neurable team deserves an enormous amount of credit for their hard work and dedication.
What is the value of tracking focus if you’re not training your focus like neurofeedback. If they offered some kind of brainwave training then it could have some value
You can train your focus however you like, and with new features coming out, and the apps that will be developed from the API. Tracking is the first step to training.
Self-awareness goes a long way. I think it trains a type of mindfulness that has a lot of clinical evidence as discussed in Amishi Jha's "Peak Mind" www.amazon.com/Peak-Mind-Attention-Invest-Minutes/dp/0062992147. They are also developing focus games to go along in the app.
Dang - I wish I could use that with the NeoRhythm on to see if there is a significant difference during stimulation. I'm pretty sure you used another method of measuring the effectiveness of the NeoRhythm before. You may have been using the Muse Headband for that.
@@CodyRallMD I don't want companies tracking my brain waves when interacting with Internet so that they can sell the data and see what triggers my positive emotions.
Yeah it might be difficult to determine if a big rise in Alpha is due to closing your eyes or reaching deep attention. From my experience with the Muse headband, the amplitude in Alpha increase due to closing your eyes is higher than most deep focus would create. I know from ChatGPT analysis that I have an unusually large increase in Alpha, so my individual factors may be at play here as well.
That is a good question. I think they are only presenting the focus metrics for now. But a wider range of measurements could become available in the eventual software development kit.
Love everything but got sticker shock. Before i clicked, i named my max price and these were more than 2x amount :/ i'll wait until a cheaper next gen.
Thanks for your honesty! So you would have paid around $350? The "focus tracking" Eno headphones are going for around $400 but the EEG quality, app and headphone quality are just no-where near the MW75's. Not even half as good in my opinion....
The only thing I don't like about Apple Airpods is that Apple doesn't show what are their audio dbs etc limits. They give you the marketing blah blah. With the last generation earbuds I had to search Google to get information on the dbs, and based on that search Nothing Tech's current Ear, earbuds were probably better.
I'm a venture capitalist usually fascinated by technology applications, familiar with neurology and micro-sonics and electrostatic headphones, and sat through this presentation mildly affixed and mildly aghast. 7 minutes in, and you have not informed me of the slightest utility of this "focus on focus" presentation. Does not help to have just seen a special on Monty Python before this. Beautiful design on the headphones, but why the EEG technology at all? Who cares about focus, what will it get me, you did not say? I assumed I could improve my mind with AI interpretation. But no, not the slightest explanation of a single benefit except ability to tolerate wearing the device comfortably for a long time. Gaining focus points introduced as a purpose of all this at 11:30. At 12 minutes I am burned out on your video, amazed I have lasted this long. Having a high flow state somehow valuable? At 14 minutes I finally have seen a few focus measurements graphed on screen. Again zero relevance except a reference to sound quality and comparison to other headphones and their noise cancellation. Focus tracking "the only difference" for $699. A whole new category: for the FIRST time the word "productivity" is mentioned casually in a sentence just before the 16 minute mark. The absurdity of this unexplained "feature" that may one day pit focus against multi-tasking prowess (but no hint of that) going almost the entire video without obvious purpose overwhelms me. Not in a good way. I have wasted a bit more of my life here, and throwing $700 more at the technology would seem very silly indeed. Your question at the end should have been asked at the beginning, but this made no progress in that direction, nor interest in your data.
do you think it is accurate enough to measure the interest in certain media consumption like watching ads or using websites? in other words, can it be used in A/B testing in UX design or marketing?
@@CodyRallMD Microwave spans from 1mm to 30cm. Bluetooth ranges somewhere around 120mm. So basically, it is inside the microwave wavelength range. Last time I checked, microwaves have the ability to excite and heat up water and dehydrate tissues, you can verify it in your microwave oven. Of course, you're gonna say it's low powered, but based on the inverse square law, the closer you are to the source the stronger the electromagnetic field is. Those antennae are placed on the temporal bone, which is thinner than the rest of the skull and immediately after you have the cerebro spinal fluid and the brain itself all of which have a very high water content. Personally, I would never ever wanna place a source of dehydrating waves immediately next to my brain which basically floats in water that should never be heated up even with the slightest percentage, at least not chronically, every day many hours at a time. In my experience, bluetooth headphones kinda heat up my ears and aggravate my tinitus. Yeah, sure, we re bombarded by all kinds of waves from the sun, but the sun isn't sticked to my head, also they are not polarized or modulated and the vast percentage of them are filtered by the magnetosphere, leaving to pass only waves between infrared and ultraviolet, which our bodies use in various metabolic pathways. Until I see a clear amd reproducible safety study that proves me that i am not boiling up my csf and my brain, I aint puttin those emmiters on my head not for one second.
@@rigaleb While Bluetooth technology operates within the microwave frequency range (around 2.4 GHz), the power levels it uses are extremely low-typically between 1 milliwatt (mW) and 100 mW. This is thousands of times weaker than the power used by microwave ovens (700-1200 watts) that can heat and dehydrate tissues by agitating water molecules. The low power emitted by Bluetooth devices means they do not generate enough energy to heat or dehydrate body tissues, including the brain or cerebrospinal fluid. Scientific research and health organizations like the World Health Organization have found no credible evidence that low-level electromagnetic fields from Bluetooth devices pose health risks. Any warmth felt from wearing Bluetooth headphones is usually due to the physical covering of the ears, not electromagnetic radiation. If you're concerned, using wired headphones is an alternative. However, based on current scientific evidence, Bluetooth headphones are safe for regular use and do not "boil" cerebrospinal fluid or heat the brain.
TL;DR Tech not yet well developed, very little of value in the offering Battery life a joke Not remotely worth it in it’s current state Absolute LOL @ wanting to buy it for status
I would like to see the focus readings on people that play battle royale games at a professional level. I think that would put the software and hardware to the test since there's a lot of distractions going on and the goals in those games are dynamic. One moment you could be focused on moving from one building to another the next your focus is strictly to aiming and firing you gun, but at the same time you still have to be aware of other sound or visual cues to make sure you aren't taken by surprise by another group, changes on the map like the closing circle, or in the specific cases like PUGB and Warzone periodic air strikes. I'd also like to compare or just observe people that play aimtrainers and use these. I think these headphones and using them with games might give a lot of data to study conditions for flow state and how we can characterize its conditions to turn it on and off at will. I have thought about getting these myself and trying them out as my gaming headset.
