## ThinkGear ##

ThinkGear™ is the technology inside every NeuroSky product or partner product that enables the device to interface with the wearers’ brainwaves. It includes:

  * the sensor that touches the forehead, 
  * the contact and reference points located on the ear pad, and
  * the onboard chip that processes all of the data. 

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Both the raw brainwaves and the eSense Meters (Attention and Meditation) are calculated on the ThinkGear™ chip.  The calculated values are output by the ThinkGear chip, through the headset, to a PC.

Types of data output from ThinkGear chips:
  * **Raw sampled wave values** (128Hz or 512Hz, depending on hardware)
  * Signal **poor quality** metrics
  * **eSense Attention and Meditation** meter values
  * **EEG band power** values for delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma
  * and more... (some hardware models only)
====== Headsets ======
The ThinkGear technology (as an ASIC or module) is embedded into different types of headsets.  NeuroSky currently sells the [[MindWaveMobile|MindWave Mobile]], the MindWave, and the MindSet headsets.

===== MindSet =====
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The **MindSet** is no longer available. 

This was our first consumer-developer released headset. It contains a **ThinkGear ASIC** chip.  It streams data from the ThinkGear chip over a Bluetooth connection to any computer that can receive a Bluetooth serial stream (SPP).  It also comes with standard Bluetooth A2DP audio and microphone capabilities.

===== MindWave =====

{{http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0031/6882/products/MindWave_large_compact.png|MindWave Headset}}

===== MindWave Mobile =====


{{http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0031/6882/products/MWM_WhiteBG_300x300_compact.jpg?|MindWave Mobile headset}}