Thread: REM Detectors (again)

Very nice find

I had to scroll to the bottom to see the authors. Thought for a moment it might have been from Kimpossible.

She never did develop or sell the last device that she and Placebo were working on.

On a high note, that looks like a really nice design.

Have you guys looked into this at all? I'm no engineer, but I have thought about it in regards to lucid dreaming many times. They already have it set up to determine when someone is in various stages of sleep.

http://www.hoana.com/technology.html

It's my Father's company, so if you have any questions let me know.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Have you guys looked into this at all? I'm no engineer, but I have thought about it in regards to lucid dreaming many times. They already have it set up to determine when someone is in various stages of sleep.

http://www.hoana.com/technology.html

It's my Father's company, so if you have any questions let me know.

I AM an engineer, if I get a chance soon, I'll give it a look and comment.

I've been searching again and I found this neat pdf file on how to build a bluetooth gsr detector. Not the easiest thing to build, but still cool, and would be quite educational too.
http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/05.strauss.pdf

Oh, and just in case that link doesn't work, I got it from this gsr website
http://bentham.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/notebook/?p=158l

Just to fill everyone in who doesn't know the background... we (Me, Kimpossible, Seeker and Magna..something) were developing a glove-based electrodermal detector, that would log the data and on REM would trigger a 'you're dreaming' signal (lights or vibration)

It has applications outside of lucid dreaming as well, of course, but the intention was to detect dreams and lucid dreams.

So what happened? Kimpossible cheesed off some people and is no longer with us. Before pissing people off, she removed all the data that had been collected :/
And I suck at electronics, so I'm not in a position to carry on without some serious electronics studies.

On a high note, that looks like a really nice design.

Yeah, but I notice that they weren't actually able to detect emotional state with it - it wasn't exactly successful. But they did feel that it had more to do with the cheaper electrodes. Kim also mentioned the electrodes being important.

Yet another project I need to get around to. I have an electronics savy friend that I might be able to bully into helping me, but it's not easy to motivate him.

Oh, and that Hoana device looks great. But it's probably very expensive, because it's intended for medical purposes.