what_is_thinkgear.txt · Last modified: by Kiran Buch

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.

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 (512 Samples/sec)
  • Signal poor quality metrics
  • eSense Attention and Meditation meter values
  • EEG band power values for delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma

Headsets

The ThinkGear technology (as an ASIC or module) is embedded into different types of headsets. NeuroSky currently sells the MindWave Mobile 2 headset.

MindWave Mobile 2

About NeuroSky

NeuroSky technologies enable the most insightful and easy-to-understand health and wellness biometrics for mobile solutions, wearable devices, and service providers. The company’s proprietary, market-leading biosensor technologies provide a foundation for analyzing biometric data in a way that’s never before been practical. NeuroSky-enabled solutions deliver unique insights into body and mind health and wellness that can motivate people to make better lifestyle choices.