Emotiv Systems

A user wearing a wireless Emotiv EPOC headset.

Emotiv Systems is an Australian electronics innovation company developing technologies to evolve human computer interaction incorporating non-conscious cues into the human-computer dialog to emulate human to human interaction. Developing brain–computer interfaces based on electroencephalography (EEG) technology, Emotiv Systems produced the EPOC near headset, a peripheral targeting the gaming market for Windows, OS X and Linux platforms. The EPOC has 16 electrodes and was originally designed to work as a brain-computer interface (BCI) input device.

The company was founded in 2003 by technology entrepreneurs Tan Le, Nam Do, Allan Snyder, and Neil Weste. However, doing a search of business entity name on Emotiv Systems at the business entity registry of the California Secretary of State http://kepler.sos.ca.gov reveals Emotiv Systems has ceased to exist, and, therefore, it should not be mixed up or confused with the currently active U.S. bioinformatics company Emotiv founded by Tan Le in 2011 http://emotiv.com/about-emotiv/ in which Nam Do, Allan Snyder, and Neil Weste have no ownerships nor roles.

See also

• Electroencephalography
• Neurofeedback
• Comparison of consumer brain–computer interfaces

External links

• Emokit open source SDK
• Tan Le: A headset that reads your thoughts
• Brain control headset for gamers, By Darren Waters, 20 February 2008, BBC News
• Reality Bites -- Emotiv -- Mind Reading Device, By David H. Freedman, 1 December 2008, Inc. Magazine profile
• Mind control: How a £200 headset is redefining brain-computing interaction, by Neal Pollack, 29 November 2010, Wired UK