Introducing MindRDR, the Google Glass app powered by thoughts alone

The free, open-source app connects Google Glass with another low cost piece of head-mounted hardware, the Neurosky EEG biosensor, to create a communication loop. The Neurosky biosensor picks up on brainwaves that correlate to a user's ability to focus, via a Bluetooth connection. The app then translates these brainwaves into a meter reading that gets superimposed onto the camera view in Google Glass. As users focus more with their mind, the meter goes up, and the app takes a photograph of what they are seeing in front of them. If they focus even more, the meter goes up again and the photo gets posted to Facebook or Twitter. On a less superficial level, the app's developers at London-based start up This Place say it could one day enable people with limited physical ability, such as sufferers of locked-in syndrome, to more easily communicate with the outside world. Company director Ben Aldred commented: "People who don't have control of their voice or their hands should still be able to open the digital world like everyone else can. The MindRDR app may be able to help them interact with the world better." Take a look at the video below to see the technology in action.