A groundbreaking new app for Google Glass allows users to take photos just by thinking about them.
MindRDR claims to be the world’s first telekinetic app for the hi-tech specs that lets a wearer use brainwaves to take photos of what they can see, simply by concentrating really hard on the image.
As well as thinking about taking the photo, wearers can then use the power of thought to share the pictures on Twitter and Facebook.
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MindRDR claims to be the world's first telekinetic app for Google Glass (pictured along with a sensor) and uses brainwaves to take photos of what a wearer sees, as well as sharing their snaps on Twitter and Facebook
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The current version of MindRDR uses commercially available brain monitor Neurosky MindWave Mobile to analyse brainwaves, expressed as meditation and attention levels.
These values are used to build up session information that charts concentration levels over time.
Wearers of Glass and the sensor can take photos by concentrating and relaxing.
The app’s visual feedback is represented by a horizontal line that sits in the middle of the screen, which moves closer to the top of the screen the more users concentrate.
The more they relax, the further down the screen the line goes. Once the line reaches the top of the screen, Google Glass takes the photo.
At the next screen, users either concentrate to move the line to the top of the screen and share it, or relax to move the line to the bottom to discard the image and take another photo.
The app also shows users ‘scores’ of how they are doing and signals success using emojis.
It means that users of Glass no longer have to touch the specs or use a voice command to take a picture, which will thrill some photographers but cause other people to worry that the innovation could be used to invade their privacy by wearers taking covert photos.
Built by London-based firm This Place, the free app, which launches today, uses Google Glass and the Neurosky EEG biosensor.
The app enables the sensor, which measures brainwaves to translate brain activity into action, to communicate with Google Glass, allowing users to control actions on the device by concentrating and relaxing.
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