“While the Exploratorium 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
Cognitive Technologies was an interactive laboratory of emerging brain technologies, featured at the Exploratorium in San Francisco during spring 2015.  

The lab was the world's first media environment to directly interact with your brain activity. The experience offered an artistic glimpse into a future where neural prosthetics are more ubiquitous. 
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As a visitor to the lab, you could touch and feel an array of emerging brain technologies, such as high-resolution cortical tissue scanning, fMRI brain decoding, and portable EEG headsets. You could experience virtual reality-based neurofeedback, track your body's physiological changes during a calmness exercise, and control a robotic arm with your brain. 
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As a visitor, you could wander freely around the room while wearing a wireless portable EEG headset, and use your mental state to interact with light sculptures, a virtual reality game, and a calmness booth. This is the first time ever (that we know of) that such an "immersive biofeedback system" has been built with portable EEG. 

We've finished running the exhibit and are out stirring up new projects. If you'd like to get in touch, send a note to cogtechgroup@gmail.com and see our other projects at CogTech.net. Many from our core team went on to form NeuroTechX, an international network for open-source neural data projects.