A friend with a PhD in statistical modeling of brain signals recently shared his view that solving the Brain is a final frontier. Neuroscience and related areas continue to attract the best of breed from engineering, sciences and of course philosophy.
Entrepreneurship and technology are not exempt either. To give you an idea of the scale of the problem at hand, we’re still understanding the biological content of thought, we’re still trying to understand what makes someone effective on a job, or an effective speaker of a language and there are many mental illnesses that need attention.
Here’s a quick roundup of ventures I believe are led by developments in Neuroscience.
Lumosity.com – Games that help you stay sharp.
Pymetrics – Games to help you find your career fit.
Muse by Interaxon – An EEG headset that makes it easy to interpret your state of mind.
Elevate – Another Brain training app that’s also been selected by Apple as the App of the year of 2014.
MagicLeap – Immersive 3D that leverages how the Brain coordinates visual and sensory signals to construct environments.
I imagine that even after we’ve cracked our brains we’re still going to be susceptible to Magic.