About
The Cognitive Technologies exhibit finished its residency in the Exploratorium in March 2015.
The exhibit was open 1-4pm Saturdays and Sundays, and 6:30-9:30pm Thursday nights from January 29 through March 1, 2015.
Team
The Exploratorium invited the Cognitive Technology Group and M0xy to create an interactive exhibit with modern nonninvasive neurotechnologies.
Using your brain to interact with the environment
As a visitor, you could interact with a environment of emerging brain technologies, including high-resolution cortical tissue scanning, fMRI brain models, and portable EEG headsets. You could experience virtual reality-based neurofeedback, track your body's physiological changes during a meditation exercise, and control a robotic arm with your brain activity.
The core of the exhibit was a neurodata routing system. When visitors entered the exhibit, they received a portable EEG headset that would broadcast the user's brainwaves to a central server. Using an RFID tag, visitors could "tag in" to interact with the various exhibits, using their realtime brainwaves. As far as we know, this is the first time that such an environment has been built.
We hope this exhibit offer a positive glimpse into a future where neurotechnologies are more developed.
Contact
Cognitive Technology Group: hello@cogtech.net
m0xy Industrial Arts Incubator: info@m0xy.com
The exhibit was open 1-4pm Saturdays and Sundays, and 6:30-9:30pm Thursday nights from January 29 through March 1, 2015.
Team
The Exploratorium invited the Cognitive Technology Group and M0xy to create an interactive exhibit with modern nonninvasive neurotechnologies.
Using your brain to interact with the environment
As a visitor, you could interact with a environment of emerging brain technologies, including high-resolution cortical tissue scanning, fMRI brain models, and portable EEG headsets. You could experience virtual reality-based neurofeedback, track your body's physiological changes during a meditation exercise, and control a robotic arm with your brain activity.
The core of the exhibit was a neurodata routing system. When visitors entered the exhibit, they received a portable EEG headset that would broadcast the user's brainwaves to a central server. Using an RFID tag, visitors could "tag in" to interact with the various exhibits, using their realtime brainwaves. As far as we know, this is the first time that such an environment has been built.
We hope this exhibit offer a positive glimpse into a future where neurotechnologies are more developed.
Contact
Cognitive Technology Group: hello@cogtech.net
m0xy Industrial Arts Incubator: info@m0xy.com
Special Thanks
Made possible through the generous support of InteraXon, DigitalOcean, OpenBCI, LEAP Motion, SparkIO, Alchemy Events, Puzzlebox, NeuroSky, and AgentFin Consulting.
Thanks to Brain Networks Laboratory, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Lichtman Lab, and Eyewire for contributing data to the neuroimaging exhibits by 3scan.
Thanks to Dr. Randal Koene for feedback and advice on science communication, Robert Hanson for his concept art and design work, to Will Wnękowicz for creating the infrastructure the headsets run on, and to our Producer, Jordan McCorkle for managing the install and making the exhibit a lived reality.
Made possible through the generous support of InteraXon, DigitalOcean, OpenBCI, LEAP Motion, SparkIO, Alchemy Events, Puzzlebox, NeuroSky, and AgentFin Consulting.
Thanks to Brain Networks Laboratory, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Lichtman Lab, and Eyewire for contributing data to the neuroimaging exhibits by 3scan.
Thanks to Dr. Randal Koene for feedback and advice on science communication, Robert Hanson for his concept art and design work, to Will Wnękowicz for creating the infrastructure the headsets run on, and to our Producer, Jordan McCorkle for managing the install and making the exhibit a lived reality.
Press
Nice things people said about it
"I've never seen a brain exhibit like CogTech, and I've seen a lot of brain exhibits. What they achieved in interactivity, display, and visitor engagement is nothing short of phenomenal."
- Graeme Moffat, Director of Research, Interaxon
"Like someone witnessing flight in the very beginning. It might not look like much but if you can make the conceptual leap, you'll see they're just getting started."
- East Bay Express
“While the museum generally features solidly constructed exhibits that illustrate established scientific principles, Cognitive Technologies bravely took visitors for a walk along the bleeding edge of current neuroscientific knowledge and technological possibility."
- Plinth Magazine
- Make Magazine: "Control a Robot Arm With Your Brain"
- Berkeley Science Review: "Catch The Brainwave"
- The East Bay Express: "This Is Your Brain On Science"
- Exploratorium Press Office: "New Exhibition on Understanding, Influencing Brain Activity Opens at Exploratorium"
- The EyeWire Blog: "EyeWire Data at the Exploratorium"
Nice things people said about it
"I've never seen a brain exhibit like CogTech, and I've seen a lot of brain exhibits. What they achieved in interactivity, display, and visitor engagement is nothing short of phenomenal."
- Graeme Moffat, Director of Research, Interaxon
"Like someone witnessing flight in the very beginning. It might not look like much but if you can make the conceptual leap, you'll see they're just getting started."
- East Bay Express
“While the museum generally features solidly constructed exhibits that illustrate established scientific principles, Cognitive Technologies bravely took visitors for a walk along the bleeding edge of current neuroscientific knowledge and technological possibility."
- Plinth Magazine