Focus 1 (the device for control of attention)

2019: Use at the Chinese schools

At the beginning of April, 2019 it became known of use of "smart" devices for control of attentiveness of pupils at one of elite schools of the city of Hangzhou (Province of Zhejiang, China).

Issued to pupils electronic bandages under the name Focus 1. They are developed by the American company BrainCo and represent the device, wearable on the head, which can help children and teenagers to improve the level of attention using scientifically proved method under naming neyrofidbek-training.

Put the "smart" bandages monitoring attentiveness at lessons on the Chinese school students

Focus 1 removes the electroencephalogram and estimates activity of a brain of the pupil when that is busy with the solution of a task. At detection of electric signals in a brain the gadget can visualize activity of a brain in real time and use these data to help to regulate concentration of attention. For example, if the school student distracted at a lesson, on a bandage the bulb will light up, and it will be noticed by the teacher.

Teachers, using the Focus EDU application, can monitor attention of pupils in real time. According to the results of a lesson the report which indicates pupils with the strongest indicators of attention is output.

Adaptation can also turn brain waves into different commands which control different devices, such as headlights, prostheses of hands, toys and home appliances.

Before emergence at Focus 1 school of Hangzhou it was tested for 10 thousand Chinese school students aged from 10 up to 17 years. In one of educational institutions development was decided to be used on a permanent basis. 

By the beginning of 2019 BrainCo signed delivery contracts in total of 20 thousand copies of Focus 1 in the Chinese schools.

Meanwhile, neurobiologists already called in question efficiency of the device, and the technology, according to experts, breaks personal privacy.^[1]

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