This Pair of Headphones Can Read Your Mind.

Mico headphones, produced by Neurowears, can scan your brainwave and select songs that match your mood.

Mico Headphones.

Neurowears, a Japanese company, is developing a pair of headphones with an electroencephalography-enabled sensor. The sensor measures and deciphers the user’s brainwaves, then connects to the mico database through an iPhone application and selects the song, which best fits the user’s mood, from a collection of neuro-tagged tunes. (Retrieved from Oddity Central).

Electroencephalography is a technique for studying the electrical currents within the brain. Whenever you have a thought or a feeling, your brain produces weak but distinct electrical signals corresponding to that thought or feeling. (Retrieved from eMedicineHealth and The Huffington Post).

With Mico headphones you may not need to scroll through your playlist and if you feel like changing a song, all you have to do is shake the phone to clear the collected data and the sensor scans your brain again in order to select a new song for you. However, the gadget can only sense three moods --- focused, drowsy and moody. The sides of each earpiece also light up, by means of built-in LED indicators, to display symbols that indicate the mood of the listener.There are limitations to the use of this gadget: Since all the neural input comes from a sensor pressed to the forehead, it can be disrupted by fast walking, running, jogging or even a stray hair.(Retrieved from Oddity Central).

Meanwhile, the Mico headphones are still in their prototype stage but Neurowear hopes to develop a market-ready product in the near future.