Controlling devices through your brain
Arial Garten, CEO of Interaxon , gave a live demonstration of 'Thought Control Computing'. Interaxon has developed the Muse, a headband that you wear on your forehead. The Muse is then linked to, for example, your iPad, making it possible to use it for various applications. An example of this is a technique they call Emotype. This technology looks at your brain activity and adjusts the typography of the messages you send based on that. In this way they add more context and the recipient can interpret the messages better.
During this first day we got multiple presentations of smart toys. An example of this is Ubooly . Ubooly is a teddy bear, with list to data which you can communicate via your iPhone. Once connected you can play various games with the Ubooly. The teddy bear then adjusts its reaction to what you say.
In the future, it will even be possible to have two Ubooly bears play together or to use the animal as a guide during a holiday. Another example of smart toys is the Sphero. The Sphero is a robot ball that uses various complicated techniques, including 2-way wireless communication. You can control the ball via your iPad, which you can then use to change the ball into other toy figures via Augmented Reality . Via an open API, it is possible for developers to develop their own apps for the Sphero.
But as mentioned, it wasn't just about the Internet of Things, but also about Evernote and Facebook, among others.