Can a headband app calm you down?
Can a headband app calm you down?
By MAC KING
Mashable's senior tech correspondent sits alone in the
newsroom. On Samantha Kelly Murphy's forehead sits a $300 headband. It
restrains none of her hair but connects wirelessly to an app on her phone. That
app professes to calm Murphy's breathing, body, and brain as much as 30 minutes
of yoga in just three minutes of headband time.
"It kind of looks like Google Glass when you put it
on," she says.
While its app tells me to think of as many languages or
presidents as I can, Muse says the sensors on this headband monitor my brain
waves to determine how I think.
"I was kind of skeptical what would happen in just
three minutes, but I did actually feel a noticeable difference
afterwards," Murphy says.
While Muse asks Murphy to stare at a beach scene and
count her breaths, it also may represent the next wave of wearable technology.
"A new trend in wearables that help you relax,"
Murphy says.
But that is if you don't stress yourself out waiting for
your phone to connect to your headband.
"Everybody wants to get on you -- whether it's your
wrist or your brain now or your head," Murphy says.
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