The Quantified Life of the Fluid Self
We never stop revising the picture we have of ourselves. We sense that our identities are fixed in place – rock-solid and immovable – but we’re wrong about that.
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Quantified Self
Mandrake — Biometric ID from Touch Interfaces
According to a senior fellow for Lockheed IT, the National Security Agency has tested the use of smartphone-swipe recognition technology dubbed Mandrake.
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The Quantified Home of the Future
I’ve been thinking about the idea of home a lot recently. I’ve been traveling over three continents for the last 6 months, living out of hostels, surfing friend’s couches, and even staying in local homes through Couchsurfing or personal connections.
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Crowdfunding: Support Titanovo’s Novel Telomere Testing Technology
Longer telomeres (the protective caps of chromosomes which shorten over the course of a lifetime) are a sign of overall good health.
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Will Wearable Sensors Make Us Healthier?
Are these wearables making any difference? Are they actually making us healthier?
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Interesting Technology for Transhumanists at CES
Some quick hits from CES 2015 that may be of interest to h+ Magazine readers and transhumanists.
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Video Friday: Why Being Proactive is Crucial for Your Health
The wearable revolution has just started and will see a huge number of home-diagnostic and monitoring devices coming to the market in the coming months and years, but being healthy starts with simple things. I have logged details about my health for over 6400 days! I use apps and gadgets to motivate myself to do exercises. You have to find your own way to stay healthy! Dr. Bertalan Mesko, Medical ...
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Hack Biology, Body, and Music: Open Call for MusicMakers Hacklab
For the past two winters, CDM has joined with Berlin’s CTM Festival to invite musical participants to grow beyond themselves.
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The Sensorium: A Multimodal Neurofeedback Environment
The Sensorium is a neurofeedback environment that allows people to experience signals from their non-perceptible body processes visually and auditorily. Various (neuro-)physiological rhythms and frequencies are projected simultaneously as soundscapes and “lightscapes” into the environment. A wireless physiological amplifier device sends signals such as EEG and ECG to a computer for real-time proce...
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The Dawn of the Neuro Age: OpenBCI Enables a DIY Revolution in Mind Controlled Devices
The project opens the door to a renaissance in DIY development of brain computer interface applications.
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