Control your TV with your mind

MindRDR TV enables the Neurosky EEG, which measures brainwaves to translate brain activity into action, to communicate directly with a mobile device (e.g. Android tablet which can be Chromecast to a TV). This allows users to control actions on the TV and tablet by simply changing their mental state.

Once the headset is worn and paired to a mobile device, a selection of the top five most popular TV programmes are displayed to the user. The interface cycles through each programme until the user selects an item based on their calibrated brainwaves. The selected programme will then playback automatically until the user focuses to go back to the discovery interface. It uses mental state to control video discovery and playback. Users can choose either concentration or relaxation to control content, making it the world’s first thought interface for TV. Users select their video; focus on relaxing or concentrating and the programme plays, focus again and it exits to the menu.

These two content platforms are the first to get special experimental MindRDR TV interfaces, via bespoke apps, with further platforms supported in the future. MindRDR TV utilises standard deep-linking to feed off existing on-demand IPTV platforms so can be deployed universally with partner platforms. This Place is now talking to TV enablers, such as OEMs, EEG Brainwave sensor manufacturers and service providers about integrating MindRDR TV into the big screen proposition.

MindRDR has proven to be an extremely empowering tool for people suffering from conditions that affect their motor control, such as quadriplegia or locked-in syndrome. It has allowed them to interact more fully in an increasingly digital world, by allowing them to take photos and socialise them on Twitter and Facebook.