I've been meditating with different levels of practice for the last 7 years. I also attended a 10-day vipassana course (taught by s.n. goenka (http://dhamma.org). Recently, I've been sitting at least 30-60 minutes per day.
For the last two months, I've been sitting while wearing the NeuroSky Mindset and using it to record my brainwaves as I meditate!
The Mindset is a $200 BCI (brain-computer interface) that looks like a pair of headphones. It measures the electrical activity of your brain via 4 "dry sensors" and sends the raw 8-channel feed of your electrical brainwave activity (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, etc) wirelessly via Bluetooth to your computer. Additionally, the chip in the headset has algorithms that interpret the raw data stream and give readings of "attention" and "meditation."
The manufacturer has put together a pretty decently documented developer center with several different APIs you can use to create games and applications that make use of the headset.
After I get a couple more weeks data recorded, I plan on writing up a longer post!
If anyone in the NYC area would like to come over and have their brainwaves recorded and try it out, give a shout. I'm in the East Village and I'd love to compare my brainwaves to other people interested in meditating and seeing some sort of "tangible" measure of "progress."
For the last two months, I've been sitting while wearing the NeuroSky Mindset and using it to record my brainwaves as I meditate!
The Mindset is a $200 BCI (brain-computer interface) that looks like a pair of headphones. It measures the electrical activity of your brain via 4 "dry sensors" and sends the raw 8-channel feed of your electrical brainwave activity (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, etc) wirelessly via Bluetooth to your computer. Additionally, the chip in the headset has algorithms that interpret the raw data stream and give readings of "attention" and "meditation."
The manufacturer has put together a pretty decently documented developer center with several different APIs you can use to create games and applications that make use of the headset.
The fancy headset costs $200: http://store.neurosky.com/products/mindset
Here's a link to the developer center: http://developer.neurosky.com/
I haven't written any apps yet, but I've been using this app to record and chart the brainwaves in my sessions over time: "http://store.neurosky.com/collections/alchemy/products/medit...
After I get a couple more weeks data recorded, I plan on writing up a longer post!
If anyone in the NYC area would like to come over and have their brainwaves recorded and try it out, give a shout. I'm in the East Village and I'd love to compare my brainwaves to other people interested in meditating and seeing some sort of "tangible" measure of "progress."