Podcasts about Emotiv

Are you interested in trying a wireless headset that allows you to interact with digital devices simply by reading your mind? This isn't science fiction; it was invented over a decade ago by Australian entrepreneur, inventor, and businesswoman Tan Le. Her groundbreaking work in neuroscience has deepened our understanding of the brain's inner workings. Now, she predicts that we will all use neural interfaces in our daily lives, and they will resemble easy-to-wear headphones.My Wildest Prediction is a podcast series from Euronews Business where we dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

29.9.23What Happens Next?Can We Unlock Humans Full Potential? | 87   New this season: Subscribe to Monash's YouTube channel to watch the video version of each full episode. This week, Monash University's podcast, "What Happens Next?", concludes its series on Transhumanism with conversations from leading experts in Medicine, Business, and Design. Monash graduate Alex Naoumidis, co-founder and co-CEO of MindsetHealth, discusses with our host, Dr. Susan Carland, the untapped possibilities of new technologies to enhance cognitive and psychological abilities. He sees transhumanism as the next logical step in human evolution. Founder and CEO of bioinformatics company EMOTIV, Monash alumna Tan Le, delves into the potential fusion of human biological capabilities and artificial intelligence to usher in a new realm of humanistic intelligence. Tan underscores the importance of inclusivity and diversity in the development, design, and deployment of emerging technologies. Associate Professor Leah Heiss, from Monash University's Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture, highlights the need for societal and regulatory frameworks in emerging technologies to ensure responsible implementation. Leah also discusses the potential of nano and micro-technologies to help restore capacity to people who have been through hardship. Finally, cardiovascular engineer from the Victorian Heart Hospital, Associate Professor Shaun Gregory, guides us through the ventricular assist device that essentially functions as an artificial heart. He shares stories of his patients who have received these devices, highlighting how this technology has provided them with a second lease on life, without diminishing their sense of humanity in any manner. Learn more: Staying ahead of the artificial intelligence revolution – Monash Lens What Happens Next? podcast: Bias in AI, part 1 Tailoring university assessment in the age of ChatGPT - Monash Lens EMOTIV's Tan Le: opportunity never wasted   “What Happens Next?” will be back next week with an all-new topic. If you're enjoying the show, don't forget to subscribe, or rate or review “What Happens Next?”  to help listeners like yourself discover it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

22.9.23What Happens Next?Are Humans About to Evolve? | 86 New this season: Subscribe to Monash's YouTube channel to watch the video version of each full episode. The latest episode of “What Happens Next?” takes you along for a ride through the fascinating – and frightening – world of transhumanism, a concept in which technology is harnessed to augment human abilities. Monash alumna Tan Le, the founder and CEO of bioinformatics company EMOTIV, kicks off the conversation by providing host Dr Susan Carland with an insightful perspective on transhumanism. She defines it as an evolution of humanity itself, where we continuously explore new avenues of augmentation beyond historical methods. Associate Professor Leah Heiss, from Monash University's Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, discusses our natural drive to create technologies that help us push beyond our biological limits. Monash Law's Associate Professor Karinne Ludlow considers the critical question of where to draw the line between medical assistance and enhancement, raising thought-provoking ethical dilemmas, such as the implications of gene editing and heritable genetic changes. As human-enhancing technologies emerge, issues of access become another pressing ethical concern. Associate Professor Shaun Gregory, a cardiovascular engineer working out of the Victorian Heart Hospital, highlights the existing disparities in healthcare access, emphasising the need for a fairer distribution of life-altering tech. Bioethicist Dr Julian Koplin helps listeners navigate the ethical minefield of transhumanism by discussing the importance of individual moral reflection, government regulation and the possibility of intellectual inertia. A full transcript of this episode is available on Monash Lens. Learn more: Staying ahead of the artificial intelligence revolution – Monash Lens What Happens Next? podcast: Bias in AI, part 1 Tailoring university assessment in the age of ChatGPT - Monash Lens EMOTIV's Tan Le: opportunity never wasted “What Happens Next?” will be back next week with part two of this series, ‘Can Tech Unlock Humans' Full Potential?'. If you're enjoying the show, don't forget to subscribe, or rate or review “What Happens Next?” to help listeners like yourself discover it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We use our brains every moment of every day. We plan, strategize, and empathize! But how often do we think about brain health as People Leaders?  This week on the podcast, Katelin Holloway explores the science of your brain at work with EMOTIV founder and CEO, Tan Le. Tan is a technology innovator and entrepreneur. She received the prestigious 2018 Innovation Research Interchange Achievement Award as a pioneering leader in the development of mobile EEG – a test that detects abnormalities in your brain waves, or in the electrical activity of your brain. Her company EMOTIV develops wearables that give workers brain metrics to encourage cognitive and mental well-being.   Tan Le shares her tips on… How to reduce workplace errors and encourage cognitive resilience  The difference between good and bad stress and the effect on our brains Why wellness programs need to be personalized How to improve employee breaks  We're a podcast for People Leaders – we would love your feedback! Rate and review All Hands in your podcasting app. This really helps new listeners find the show!  Follow All Hands on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Catch new episodes every other Tuesday.  Learn more about how Lattice helps companies deliver great business results with smart people strategy at Lattice.com.  Find us on Twitter @LatticeHQ. 

This episode features an interview with Tan Le, Founder and CEO of EMOTIV. Tan is an innovator, entrepreneur, speaker, and award-winning industry leader. Founded in 2011, EMOTIV is a bioinformatics company that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to better understand the human brain and accelerate brain research globally. EMOTIV's braintech is cited by more than 19,000 research papers, representing breakthroughs in research for a range of diseases, brain impairments, and educational modalities.In this episode, Amanda and Tan discuss using science to improve employee experience, personalizing wellbeing, and the cost of task switching.-------------------“The nice thing about technology like this is that you don't have that single moment bias that's skewed towards the moment in which you were surveyed. You actually get to see the ebb and flow of a person's emotion, their cognitive state throughout an entirety of a week or whenever you are actually using the technology. This takes away that bias that intrinsically happens with surveys and you really start to understand different types of work, different types of environments, different types of tasks, and its effect on your brain.” – Tan Le-------------------Episode Timestamps:*(02:44): Tan explains EMOTIV *(11:52): Segment: Story Time*(15:11): Tan's background *(17:51): Segment: Getting Tactical*(18:18): What data and science can tell us that employee surveys can't*(31:06): The cost of task switching*(34:42): Segment: Asking For a Friend*(37:48): Tan's advice for implementing EEGs-------------------Links:Connect with Tan on LinkedInLearn more about EMOTIVAlzheimer's and Dementia StudyBCI4Kids ProgramWatch @brainpaintbyjohn paint while wearing EMOTIV's EPOC headsetConnect with Amanda on LinkedInwww.simpplr.com/podcast

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.04.519056v1?rss=1 Authors: Sabio, J., Williams, N., McArthur, G., Badcock, N. A. Abstract: BACKGROUND: Commercial electroencephalography (EEG) devices have become increasingly available over the last decade. These devices have been used in a wide variety of fields ranging from engineering to cognitive neuroscience. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to chart peer-review articles that used currently available consumer-grade EEG devices to collect neural data. We provide an overview of the research conducted with these relatively more affordable and user-friendly devices. We also inform future research by exploring the current and potential scope of consumer-grade EEG. METHODS: We followed a five-stage methodological framework for a scoping review that included a systematic search using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines. We searched the following electronic databases: PsycINFO, MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore. We charted study data according to application (BCI, experimental research, validation, signal processing, and clinical) and location of use as indexed by the first author's country. RESULTS: We identified 916 studies that used data recorded with consumer-grade EEG: 531 were reported in journal articles and 385 in conference papers. Emotiv devices were most used, followed by the NeuroSky MindWave, OpenBCI, interaXon Muse, and MyndPlay Mindband. The most common use was for brain-computer interfaces, followed by experimental research, signal processing, validation, and clinical purposes. CONCLUSIONS: Consumer-grade EEG has proven to be a useful tool for neuroscientific research and will likely continue to be used well into the future. Our study provides a comprehensive review of their application, as well as future directions for researchers who wish to use these devices. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Angel-scale biotech: Learn More While at Harvard Medical School, Senan Ebrahim was deeply affected by witnessing a still birth. Convinced better data could have avoided the tragedy, he founded Delfina Care with Priyanka Vaidya from EMOTIV, the EEG platform, and his brother Ali Ebrahim, PhD, a former Tech Lead at Google. Senan and Priyanka joined me for a great chat about the exciting things happening in digital health.   Highlights:   Sal Daher Introduces Senan Ebrahim and Priyanka Vaidya of Delfina Senan Ebrahim Was Interviewed in a Prior Episode Titled “Hikma Health” Obstetricians Are Flooded with Data from Pregnant Patients Leading to Poor Outcomes Priyanka Vaidya's Experience with Gestational Diabetes Highlighted the Need to Coordinate Care “...I realized discontinuity of care is a major problem.” “Delfina wants to be that one place that integrates all of these discrete sources of data so that the mom stays in the center of the care...” Integrating Health Data Shows Up in Interviews with Jeremy Wiygul, MD of Pela Health and Ryan Hess of Connective Health “...how are we going to take better care of the four million pregnant moms in 2023 than we did in 2022?” Senan Reached Out to Priyanka for Product Savvy and to His Brother Ali for Experience Building Sophisticated Data Models The Patient Journey at Delfina “This data is being enriched as the patient travels along the journey.” Machine Learning Is Just Starting to Do Useful Things in Medicine Like Identifying a Stroke Quickly or Predicting Preeclampsia Incentives Are Aligned in Pregnancy Care; Nobody Wants Babies to End Up in Intensive Care What Delfina Means by “Closing the Loop” in Patient Care Delfina's Platform Is Actually Live at a Practice in California Commercialization Will Focus Initially on Under-Served Populations How the Name “Delfina” Came About The Founding Story of Delfina Care Topics: biotech, product, robotics / AI

Yves Saint Laurent, #L'Oréal y la empresa #EMOTIV, líder en #neurotecnología, pondrán a disposición de los #clientes de las boutiques de la marca de lujo, una experiencia multisensorial, gracias a dispositivo de neurotecnología con aromas y algoritmos, que permitirán a los consumidores elegir la fragancia perfecta dependiendo de sus emociones.

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According to the World Health Organization, burnout results from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is typically characterized by three dimensions: feelings of exhaustion; increased mental apathy towards one's job; and lack of confidence about your abilities. Burned-out employees are 63% more likely to take a sick day, 2.6x more likely to be actively seeking a different job, and 13% less confident in their performance.In this HRchat episode, we discuss ways to help limit the risks of employee burnout and what to do if you spot employees suffering. Bill's guest is Trung Tran, CEO at Amplio, a company on a mission to help businesses retain talent by helping them to avoid burnout. Trung has spent his career in silicon valley working for companies such as HP and Intel. He worked on the development of 72 products worth $2.2B in revenue. His interest in AI stems from his work at DARPA on next-generation AI systems and algorithms. He remains passionate to the idea that AI should help people reason better and not replace them. Questions Include:What causes burnout? How has the pandemic contributed to employees feeling stressed, anxious and/or over-worked?  Avoiding burnout means understanding one's current state and knowing how to manage one's stress. Is it always obvious to an individual that they are approaching/living through burnout or does it sometimes require an outsider to spot the signs? What role does Amplio try to play in helping to combat (potential) burnout?Amplio claims to collect both subjective and objective data to yield the best results. In combination with interactive surveys, your team uses devices such as the Garmin Watch, Whoop band, Google Fitbit, and the Emotiv headset to gather psychological data and physiological data. What has been the response of employees to being asked to wear such monitoring devices? How important do you think it is for employees to feel supported by their companies?In terms of lost revenue and productivity, what are the costs to employers of having burned-out employees? How can employers spot signs of burnout early to avoid longer-term health issues? We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our sponsors and guests are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.  

This week our guest is Tan Le, who is CEO of the bioinformatics company Emotiv, which makes wearable EEG neuro-headsets that enable people to collect data on their brain activity. Tan Le has a truly remarkable story, from Vietnamese refugee, to studying Law, to becoming the Young Australian of the Year, all the way to her current role helping to drive the accessibility of neuroscience. In this episode, we explore her journey, including how someone without neuroscience training can nonetheless create a company that pushes the field forward, and we also dig more deeply into how the headsets work and the future Tan believes we'll create with such technology. Read her book, The NeuroGeneration and check out her company, Emotiv.com ** Sign up for your 2 week free trial of Singularity's premium membership @ singularity.org/2weektrial Apply to join our Nov 7th - 11th Executive Program @ go.su.org/ep2021 ** Host: Steven Parton - LinkedIn / Twitter Music by: Amine el Filali

Earbuds that can read brain data and adapting the work environment to your mood and cognitive state are just two of the fascinating topics we discuss in part two of Brain Matters: How Brain Computer Interfaces Extend Reality. We're joined by leading experts in the field, Chief Commerical Officer of EMOTIV, Kim O and President and Neuroscientist, Olivier. Make sure to check out part 1, where we talk BCI basics, debunking myths, and explore the uses cases in the market today. This two-part series is especially special because Nirav does not reference Bruce Springstein. You're welcome. Subscribe, share, and listen here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/xrseapod/message

We force our brain to conform to our tools and applications, but what if we could adapt our environment to our mind? Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is so much more than controlling objects with our mind. We explore what is BCI and debunking myths with Neuroscientist and President of Emotiv, Olivier Oullier and Chief Commercial Officer, Kim Old. Join us for this episode, Part 1 of 2, Brain Matters: How Brain Computer Interfaces Extend Reality. Listen, Share and Subscribe! Brain Matters...see what we did there? -XRSEAPOD Team, Kirby, Nirav, Steven and Vinay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/xrseapod/message

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My favourite recent hacks to help your energy and vitality levels. Recorded on the beach - very lucky to get a dose of winter Vitamin D. More info on brain hacks: I first used this brain sensing headband about 5 years ago. Click here if you’d like to see my good friend Dr. Stephen Simpson modelling it in an earlier podcast. It is described as a personal meditation assistant that will gently guide you to a calm mind. Put on the Muse headband, earbuds, start the app, and close your eyes. You will hear changing sounds of weather based on the real-time state of your brain which allows you to obtain a deeper sense of focus and motivates you to build a highly rewarding practice. Brain hack 2 to energise you: Meditation app. You might remember I mentioned Sam Harris’ Waking Up meditation app about a year ago. And I’m still using it. It makes a big difference to my day and has got me thinking about all sorts of trippy consciousness concepts. It’s very simple, and introduces the listener to lots of different types of meditation. Each day is about 10 minutes so manageable. They’ve recently introduced a 20-minute option too. Brain hack 3 to energise you? A U.S. brain research company called Emotiv has developed a brain-scanning device with two electrodes, one for each ear (thanks to Zestology listener Sonia for flagging it up). It looks like standard ear pods, and functions like them too. I’m not keen, in fact I wouldn’t even want to wear standard earpods all day connected to either bluetooth or wifi. But that aside, technology moving into user-friendly brain-scanning raises all sorts of ethical considerations, and whilst I quite like the Muse headband, I draw the line at this! What about you? Let me know.

Mark Pollock is changing the world. Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark went on to compete in ultra endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including being the first blind person to race to the South Pole. In 2010 he was left paralysed after falling from a second story window. At the Global Education and Skills Forum in 2019, Mark inspires delegates with his new field of exploration - the intersection where humans and technology collide. In discussion with Olivier Oullier (President of EMOTIV, the global leader in mobile neurotechnologies and personalised neuroinformatics), Mark talks to the catalysing collaborations that we can expect to see changing our world. #GESF @VarkeyFDN

How does direct brain-computer interaction work? Will we control computers and machines with our thoughts soon? How will the advances in the field of neurotechnologies impact our health and educational systems - but also society as a whole - in the near future? In this week's episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Tan Le, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emotiv, a pioneer in brain wearable technology. Tan Le is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies and Brain Science.

Order in the court!  (Ham and Cheese) For their final installment of "Exploring the Mysteries of Miracleman", your favorite legal eagles Chris (@acecomics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) don their long robes and powdered wigs and do their darnedest to figure out just who owns Marvelman! They will discuss the wheelings and dealings of one Spawny fellow... and spend far too much time discussing the characters of Angela, Cogliostro, and Medieval Spawn... but they promise it all (mostly) fits the story. Overall, it's an hour and change of audio likely to make you even more curious and confused about Marvelman, and just how his story finally "shook out". -- You can get a hold of us at weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com -- For our weekly writings check out www.weirdsciencedccomics.com For Chris' daily writings check out www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com -- Check out www.weirdcomicshistory.blogspot.com for show notes! -- Visit us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/CosmicTMillHistory and on Twitter @CosmicTMill -- We're also now on YouTube... just search "weirdcomicshistory" (all one word) and you ought to be able to find us! -- Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, iHeartRadio... wherever's most convenient! New episodes of Chris and Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill drop every Sunday morning. Weird Comics History releases sporadically on Tuesdays. -- TAGS: Marvelman, Miracleman, Marvel Comics, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham, Todd McFarlane, Eclipse Comics, MasterMan, Mick Anglo, Emotiv, Scenes a Faire, uncopyrightability, Angela, Medievel Spawn, Cogliostro, Spawn, Man of Miracles, Grant Morrison, Joe Quesada

Shownotes I’ve invited on Nathan Maton to talk about integrating biosensors into roleplaying games. We discuss currently available technology like brainwave, heart rate, and galvanic skin response sensors and the different game mechanics that can rely on them. Then we jump ahead to future technology and speculate a little on how brain-computer interfaces can create new storytelling experiences. Episode Links Nathan Maton Nathan’s podcast, The Last Stand Brain wave sensors Emotiv and Muse Webcam based heart rate detection

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Host Justin Barnes', aka @HITAdvisor, guest is Prof. Olivier Oullier(@oullier), neuroscientist & strategist, Fortune Magazine - Your Brain on Business.

How does direct brain-computer interaction work? Will we control computers and machines with our thoughts soon? How will the advances in the field of neurotechnologies impact our health and educational systems - but also society as a whole - in the near future? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Tan Le, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emotiv, a pioneer in brain wearable technology. Tan Le is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies and Brain Science.

This is Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news. Installation has been completed on the world's largest radio telescope as the last 4,000 pieces of panels were fitted into the center of the big dish. Hoisting of the last piece of triangular panel to the reflector lasted around an hour. It was a landmark step for the telescope's planned launch of operations in September. The telescope is the size of 30 football pitches. Around 300 people, including builders, experts and reporters, witnessed the installation at a karst valley in Pingtang County in the southwestern province of Guizhou. Renowned science fiction writer Liu Cixin said at the site that the telescope is of great significance for humans to explore the universe and extraterrestrial civilizations. Liu won the Hugo Award for Best Novel last year. Scientists will begin debugging and trial observation of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who built the telescope said the project has the potential to search for more strange objects to better understand the origin of the universe and boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life. The radio telescope will be the global leader for the next 10 to 20 years. This is Special English. China will be among a handful of nations that are able to build two types of satellites, both geostationary and orbiting, to monitor the entire globe. China will put another 14 weather satellites into service by 2025, in addition to the current seven, in a bid to better monitor weather patterns to benefit society. Since 1988, China has launched 14 satellites in its Fengyun series for meteorological observation and related services. Seven of them are still in operation. The satellites are expected to provide complete global weather monitoring and put China on the short list of countries that build both types of satellites. The United States and Europe are also able to build both types. The national meteorological authority said the seven weather satellites in operation scan the entire world every 25 minutes, and certain regions every six minutes. Currently, more than 2,500 domestic users, including companies and institutes, have received data from the satellites. You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. China has released a new draft regulation for adoption, which for the first time allows children who were abducted to be adopted by Chinese citizens; and the adoption is allowed if the police cannot find their biological parents within 12 months. The police are responsible for locating abducted children's biological parents or other guardians. The draft regulation has been publicized to solicit public opinion. New provisions in the regulation also involve the adoption of abandoned children, and those who find abandoned children should report it to the police immediately. If efforts fail to locate the children's biological parents within three months, the police will render the abandoned children eligible for adoption. Compared with the current regulation, the draft also simplifies some procedures, removing some unnecessary paperwork and certificates. This is Special English. The Ministry of Education says there were more than 1,300 vocational colleges for higher education in China last year. The colleges were attended by 10 million students last year, accounting for 40 percent of all college undergraduates. The vocational institutes also provided on-the-job training to 20 million people last year. The ministry said vocational colleges offer occupational courses and are important to transforming higher education from an elite area to one for the masses. By the end of last year, all the provincial regions in China had established financial support systems for vocational colleges. Annual financial subsidies on each student should be no less than 12,000 yuan next year. That's roughly 1,800 U.S. dollars. A budget of 5 billion yuan from the government is also expected in the next five years, to promote the combination of production and study and build a modern vocational education system. You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. A hospital in Shanghai has announced that a healthy baby girl has been born from an embryo frozen 18 years ago. A 45-year-old woman gave birth to the girl, weighing 3,300 grams. The embryo was implanted into the woman's womb in November at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Fudan University in Shanghai. The woman suffered from blocked fallopian tubes and began trying to get pregnant in the Shanghai hospital in 1998 through IVF, or in vitro fertilization. She had three failed implantations, one with a fresh embryo and two with frozen ones. At the beginning of last year, she went to the hospital again and had the embryo implanted. Frozen embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius. Shanghai health department said in 2013 that a medical institution should keep a client' embryos for no more than five years. However hospitals usually have to store the embryos for much longer because most clients do not ask for the service to be halted. This is Special English. Four chronic illnesses, namely cancer, cardiovascular, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease, topped the causes for premature deaths in Beijing. A report released by the Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission said it was the first time a health department has released the premature mortality rate, defined as someone who dies before the age of 70. An official at the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that when a person dies at 40 years old, he or she is considered to have lost 30 potential years of life. The premature mortality rate is a measurement that gives more weight to the death of younger people; and it could be a guide to the health department to take preventive action. Of the four causes of premature death, cancer was listed at No 1. It contributed to 27 percent of all deaths in Beijing last year, an increase of 4 percent over 2014. The report also found that lung cancer, colorectal and liver cancers were the top three that led to death in Beijing last year. The report said that what calls for special attention is that thyroid cancer has seen a significant growth among women in Beijing. In the past ten years, thyroid cancer among women in Beijing climbed from 2 to 15 per 100,000 people. You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues. Robots, tiny drones and brainwave sensors exhibited on the sidelines of the Summer Davos in Tianjin have offered a glimpse into the future. The event was held by the World Economic Forum and is also known as the Annual Meeting of the New Champions. Kevin Chen spent most of the event introducing his "RoboBees" to curious visitors to the Exploration Zone. The tiny and light machines, roughly the shape of a bee, can fly and perch by flapping their wings 120 times per second, faster than using blades, as most unmanned aerial vehicles do. Chen, a Chinese PhD candidate at Harvard University, used artificial muscles custom-made from carbon-fiber sheets to power the RoboBees. They can be used to spread pollen or search for people buried after disasters. RoboBees were not the only animalistic drones at Summer Davos. Also on show were robots imitating the movement of snakes and spiders designed to assume search and rescue tasks. One of the most popular exhibits at the Exploration Zone was a brain-machine interface developed by San Francisco firm Emotiv. When a user puts on a headset, his or her brainwaves are linked wirelessly to a small white ball and can light it up with different colors. Testers at the zone were able to move the balls with their minds. This is Special English. A top scoring student in the national college entrance exam has been rewarded with an apartment by a local property developer in Enping City in Guangdong Province. The exam results were announced in June in the province and Wu Zhengtao became the top scorer among all the exam takers in the city. He was granted a large apartment measuring 133-square-meter. Wu said he never expected to win a top scour nor the apartment. When responding to learning tips, Wu said the outcome was the result of hard study. He said he always squeezes in time to study and make full use of the time after class. Wu was born into an ordinary family and is his parents' only child. His mother went to Venezuela two years ago and works at a grocery store. His father runs a business in Enping City. Wu lives in an old 80-square-meter apartment with his grandparents and his father. He said he hopes the new home will improve the living conditions of the family. You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. The panda twin cubs born in Macao a couple weeks ago are in good health. Macao's Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau said in a report that the larger panda cub has grown from 135 grams at birth to 167, and the smaller one from 53 to 78 grams. Macao has formed a specialized team to take care of the cubs and their mother. The larger cub is strong and can feed by itself while the smaller one is fed by panda experts who collect milk from the mother. The bureau said on June 26 that a female panda Xinxin had given birth to a pair of twin male cubs. Xinxin and a male panda named Kaikai were chosen from Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Southwest China's Sichuan Province as a gift from the central government to Macao. This is Special English. （全文见周六微信。）

This is Special English. I&`&m Liu Yan in Beijing. Here is the news.Chinese scientists are expanding the capacity of an underground facility designed to detect elusive dark matter particles.The scientists are still searching for evidence to prove the existence of the hypothetical dark matter, an invisible substance thought to account for over a quarter of the universe&`&s mass-energy balance.The Jinping Underground Laboratory started operating in 2010. The laboratory is located 2,400 meters under a mountain in Sichuan Province. It features a store of xenon, one of the few materials that interact with dark matter. There are also cosmic rays which interfere with attempts to observe dark matter that generally cannot penetrate to such a depth underground.Researchers at the laboratory said they have started a new phase of experiment. The lab now stores 300 kilograms of xenon, an expansion from the 50 kilograms in previous experiment.In the future, the total amount of xenon stored in the lab will be increased to a number of tons, but it will depend on when the research funding is in place.The new experiment will last around a year, and will go further on the way to find dark matter signals.But the researchers said they may need to keep up their current fast pace if China is to win the race in this sector. International competition in the hunt for dark matter is fierce. Many countries are building larger detection equipment with cutting-edge technology.This is Special English.The bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao has moved a step closer to completion as two main bridge structures have been connected.Macao&`&s legislature has described the connection as a milestone for the world-class project; but said there will still be many challenges before the project is finished.By early July, 80 percent of a 7-km tunnel has been completed. A full-scale effort can now begin on the bridge deck pavement and traffic engineering.The 55-km bridge is comprised of the offshore bridge and tunnel, boundary crossing facilities in Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao, as well as routes connecting the three cities. The main structure of the bridge is made up of the underwater tunnel and a bridge spanning 23 kilometers. Artificial islands will be built at both ends of the tunnel.According to the authority, the amount of iron used in the main structure alone weighs around 400,000 metric tons, enough for around 60 Eiffel Towers in Paris.The completion of the Hong Kong section of the bridge, built independently by the Hong Kong SAR government, was postponed for a year to the end of 2017, after it was reported that the artificial islands had shifted between six and seven meters in September.This is Special English.Earthquake monitoring stations across China are making use of nature to supplement their man-made early warning systems.Researchers have found that many species of animals and birds behave abnormally in the buildup to a large quake.Although odd behavioral displays do not necessarily mean a tremor is on the way, they can be a good indicator. That&`&s according to Sun Delei, deputy chief of the quake monitoring and forecasting department at the Earthquake Bureau in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.Sun&`&s bureau designated the Xinjiang Ancient Ecological Garden as an earthquake monitoring station on June 16, bringing the number of such centers in the city to 28.It was chosen because it is home to a large number of animals, including the Ferghana horse.Most of China&`&s earthquake monitoring stations keep animals and birds on site, including horses, pigs, dogs and parrots.Keepers at each center record the animals&`& behavior daily, with any abnormalities reported and studied to find out if they relate to an upcoming quake.Before the magnitude-4.2 quake in Urumqi on December 24, more than 60 parakeets that had been asleep suddenly jumped down from their perches, and the parrots were squawking for almost 30 minutes.The development of monitoring stations was stepped up by the China Earthquake Administration in the wake of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan that left more than 69,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands injured.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Liu Yan in Beijing.A hospital in Shanghai has announced that a healthy baby girl has been born from an embryo frozen 18 years ago.A 45-year-old woman gave birth to the girl, weighing 3,300 grams. The embryo was implanted into her womb in November at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai.The woman suffered from blocked fallopian tubes and began trying to get pregnant in the Shanghai hospital in 1998 through IVF, or in vitro fertilization. She had three failed implantations, one with a fresh embryo and two with frozen ones.At the beginning of last year, she went to the hospital again and had the embryo implanted.Frozen embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius. Shanghai health department said in 2013 that a medical institution should keep a client&`& embryos for no more than five years. However hospitals usually have to store the embryos for much longer because most clients do not ask to halt the service.This is Special English.Four chronic illnesses, namely cancer, cardiovascular, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease, topped the causes for premature deaths in Beijing.A report released by the Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission said it was the first time a health department has released the premature mortality rate, defined as someone who dies before the age of 70. An official at the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that when a person dies at 40 years old, he or she is considered to have lost 30 potential years of life. The premature mortality rate is a measurement that gives more weight to the death of younger people; and it could be a guide to the health department to take a preventive action. Of the four causes of premature death, cancer was listed at No 1. It contributed to 27 percent of all deaths in Beijing last year, an increase of 4 percent over 2014. The report also found that lung cancer, colorectal and liver cancers were the top three that led to death in Beijing last year. The report said that what calls for special attention is that thyroid cancer has seen a significant growth among women in Beijing. In the past ten years, thyroid cancer among women in Beijing climbed from 2 to 15 per 100,000 people. This is Special English.Robots, tiny drones and brainwave sensors exhibited on the sidelines of the Summer Davos in Tianjin have offered a glimpse into the future. The event was held by the World Economic Forum and also known as the Annual Meeting of the New Champions.Kevin Chen spent most of the event introducing his "RoboBees" to curious visitors to the Exploration Zone. The tiny and light machines, roughly the shape of a bee, can fly and perch by flapping their wings 120 times per second, rather than using blades, as most unmanned aerial vehicles do.Chen, a Chinese PhD candidate at Harvard University, used artificial muscles custom-made from carbon-fiber sheets to power the RoboBees. They can be used to spread pollen or search for people buried after disasters.RoboBees were not the only animalistic drone at Summer Davos. Also on show were robots imitating the movement of snakes and spiders and designed to assume search and rescue tasks.One of the most popular exhibits at the Exploration Zone was a brain-machine interface developed by San Francisco firm Emotiv.When a user puts on a headset, his or her brainwaves are linked wirelessly to a small white ball and can light it up with different colors. Testers at the zone were able to move the balls with their minds.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Liu Yan in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That&`&s mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.A top scorer student of the national college entrance exam has been rewarded an apartment by a local property developer in Enping City of Guangdong Province. The exam results were announced in June in the province and Wu Zhengtao became the top scorer among all the exam takers in the city. He was granted a big apartment measuring 133-square-meter.Wu said he never expected to win a top scour nor the apartment. When responding to learning tips, Wu said the outcome is the result of hard study. He said he always squeezes out time to study and make full use of the time after class.Wu was born into an ordinary family and is the only child of his parents. His mother went to Venezuela two years ago and works at a grocery store. His father runs a business in Enping City.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Liu Yan in Beijing.The panda twin cubs born in Macao a couple weeks ago are in good health.Macao&`&s Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau said in a report that the bigger panda cub has grown from 135 grams at birth to 167, and the smaller one from 53 to 78 grams.Macao has formed a specialized team to take care of the cubs and their mother.The bigger cub is strong and can feed by itself while the smaller one is fed by panda experts who collect milk from the mother.The bureau said on June 26 that a female panda Xinxin has given birth to a pair of male twin cubs.Xinxin and a male panda named Kaikai were chosen from Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Southwest China&`&s Sichuan Province as a gift of the central government to Macao.This is Special English.（全文见周日微信。）

Can you detect lies with machine learning? Jennifer Marsman can! Carl and Richard chatted with Jennifer while at the NDC conference in Oslo. Jennifer talked about gathering EEG data with Emotiv headsets to do lie detection by taking base line (known true and known false) questions and then applying Azure Machine Learning to classify the data. The conversation dives into the different machine learning techniques available on Azure and how certain algorithms are more effective on different data sets - it turns out EEG data works great with deep neural networking! There are lots of different opportunities in the machine learning space, time to check it out!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Can you detect lies with machine learning? Jennifer Marsman can! Carl and Richard chatted with Jennifer while at the NDC conference in Oslo. Jennifer talked about gathering EEG data with Emotiv headsets to do lie detection by taking base line (known true and known false) questions and then applying Azure Machine Learning to classify the data. The conversation dives into the different machine learning techniques available on Azure and how certain algorithms are more effective on different data sets - it turns out EEG data works great with deep neural networking! There are lots of different opportunities in the machine learning space, time to check it out!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Back in December, I attended the Share the Force event at LA Live, sponsored by Target. Part of the marketing juggernaut for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the two-day event had themed origami projects, a 'see the galaxy' show, Legos galore, the ability to use the force through Emotiv headsets, and merchandise and fan memorabilia from Rancho Obi-Wan. See the accompanying article (with photos and video) here.

Nam Do is currently CEO of SeeSpace and invented InAiR which overlays Internet content on the TV screen and InAiR interface transforms TV into an astonishing Minority Report-like experience. Prior to form SeeSpace, he was Co-Founder/CEO of Emotiv, world leader in brain computer interface technologies. Nam also co-founded and ran SASme, a pioneer in providing SMPP platforms to telecommunication carriers and content aggregators in Australia and Asia. In 2007, Nam was voted as one of Australia's Top 10 Digital Entrepreneurs.

Le docteur Geoffrey Mackellar est directeur technique, en charge de la R&D, chez Emotiv, une société de neuro-ingénierie qui développe des interfaces innovantes qui communiquent directement avec le cerveau humain.

Dr Geoffrey Mackellar is the CEO of Emotiv Research & CTO of Emotiv, a neuroengineering company that has developed a breakthrough interface technology for digital media taking inputs directly from the brain.

2011 - Le docteur Geoffrey Mackellar est directeur technique, en charge de la R&D, chez Emotiv, une société de neuro-ingénierie qui développe des interfaces innovantes qui communiquent directement avec le cerveau humain.

Dr Geoffrey Mackellar is the CEO of Emotiv Research & CTO of Emotiv, a neuroengineering company that has developed a breakthrough interface technology for digital media taking inputs directly from the brain.

The Emotiv EPOC now makes it possible for games to be controlled and influenced by the player's mind. Engaging, immersive, and nuanced, Emotiv-inspired game-play will be like nothing ever seen before. (April 9, 2008)