Time to use our brains and get Emotiv

I first met up with the team from Australian-born human-machine interface developer Emotiv Systems about a year ago, thanks to a tip from investor Mike Zimmerman at Technology Venture Partners. What makes Emotiv remarkable is that it is developing a low-cost sensor head-set that is capable of measuring electrical activity in the brain, such as emotions and instructions, and applying that to the control of characters and avatars in computer games and online worlds. I've written about Emotiv before (and also in this feature on digital entrepreneurs for SmartCompany, here), but now you can hear the story in the words of co-founder Tan Le herself, thanks to this interview conducted by David Cannington for The Valley Beat. Emotiv is one of the rare companies whose technology has the potential to totally change an aspect of computing - in this case, how we interact in online environments, and how we express ourselves. And despite Tan and her team now being located in the US, all R&D continues at its Sydney office.