Flux (helmet for reading thoughts)

2021: Start selling a smart thought helmet for $50K

In mid-June 2021 American startup Kernel , he announced the start of sales of helmets for helmets reading thoughts that can analyze activity. neurons The cost of the device is $50 thousand.

Founded by Brian Johnson, startup Kernel spent more than five years and $55 million developing two helmets, Flux and Flow, which use sensors and lasers to measure and study the electromagnetic activity of the brain. The Flow helmet is designed to assess attention and emotional state, and Flux is designed to evaluate brain performance, learning, emotions and response to information. According to the startup, Flow can read indicators of neuronal activity in real time and determine the patterns of brain activity with high accuracy. Flux captures the speed of movement of neurons in real time.

Start selling smart helmets for reading Flux and Flow thoughts from Kernel

Among Kernel's first clients are research institutes that will use helmets to study brain structure, mental disorders, the effects of concussion, as well as diseases, including stroke and Alzheimer's disease. So, Harvard Medical School and the University of Texas will join the use of technology. It is also planned to supply devices to commercial companies - they will use helmets to study people's reactions to products.

Entrepreneur Brian Johnson, who founded Kernel, plans to reduce the cost of the helmet from $50 thousand to the cost of a smartphone by 2030 so that any family can afford it. Johnson is sure that the main products of the startup, Flux and Flow helmets, allow you to effectively monitor a person's mental health.

Kernel is a full-stack neurotechnological startup in which scientists and engineers control every step from chip design to optics; from software development to machine learning; from experimental design to analysis technologies. The startup began operations in 2016.^[1]

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