Xiaomi MiGu (smart headband)

2022: Device Announcement

In early August 2022, the Chinese company Xiaomi introduced a headband called MiGu, which allows you to control smart home elements using brainwaves. The device is equipped with three sensors, they detect electrical signals from the brain.

The MiGu device appeared as a result of a recent Chinese hackathon (a forum for developers, during which specialists from different areas of software development work together to solve a problem for a while). The accompanying video shows how the device connects to a smartphone that displays brain waves. In the video, the inventors of the device suggest that it can track brain waves to detect signs of fatigue while driving or be used to control household appliances. When the new device goes on sale, the manufacturer has not yet specified, and there is no information about its cost.

Xiaomi introduced a gadget for controlling a smart home with the power of thought

MiGu will allow users to turn on the lights in the house, start a robot vacuum cleaner or warm up the kettle. To do this, the owner of such a bandage will only need to think about some specific action. In addition, the gadget is capable of conducting electroencephalography of the user. The device can also track fatigue, and if the bandage carrier is overexcited, MiGu will send a warning to the smartphone with a request to relax.

Scientists used electrodes to record the activity of brain neurons to learn how they respond not only to visual images, smells and sounds, but also to memory, emotion, pleasure and pain. Neurons are special cells: they communicate with tens of thousands of other neurons and form branched networks responsible for the complex calculations that underlie all of our actions.^[1]

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