Oximeter uses your phone's camera and flash to read the amount ofoxygen carried by your body's red blood cells. You can view thisdata on the phone or stream it to other devices and experiments.Oximeters work by looking at the amount of red light absorbed bythe red blood cells in your body. The more oxygen the cells carry,the less red light is absorbed. To use this app, press your phone'scamera and flash firmly against the area where you want to measureoxygenation and start the app. The app will display the oxygenationlevel and a URL to retrieve the data stream from other devices.Note:This is not a medical oximeter and does not provide %oxygen saturation or SPO2 (there is too much variance betweendevices to do this accurately). The oxygenation scale reflectsrelative readings (i.e. increases or decreases in oxygenation overtime).In some phones the flash LED may heat up with prolonged use. Donot place the phone over skin that lacks normal sensation whenusing the app.EXPERIMENTS TO TRYPlace the phone over a muscle and observe changes in oxygenation asthe muscle is contracted or relaxed.Place the phone against the forehead. Can you detect changes inoxygenation associated with performing a mental task?Try to detect naturally occurring oscillations in blood flow(Mayer waves) using the oximeter.

Boost Lite uses neuroscience technology to help you feel morealertand improve your mental performance by increasing thefrequency ofelectrical oscillations in your brain.Boost Lite is based on audio-visual brainwave entrainment(AVE),a technique that's been used in research and healthcare fordecadesto manipulate brainwaves. Boost Light can use this techniquetoincrease your brain's processing speed and memorycapability,without any additional hardware.HOW BOOST LITE WORKSDuring normal wakefulness, the human brain generateselectricalwaves at a rate of 8-12 oscillations per second. Thespeed of thesewaves is associated with cognitive performance anddeclines withage starting in young adulthood.Boost Light manipulates these waves by providingsynchronized"pulses" of light and sound which encourage neurons tofire at ahigher frequency than they normally do, temporarilyreversing thedecline in processing speed that occurs as a part ofnormalaging.While many binaural beat and brainwave entrainment apps relyonspeculation about the effects of a stimulation protocol,theaudio-visual entrainment technology used in Boost Lite isanimplementation of a protocol previously demonstrated to causelargeincreases in alpha frequency (http://www.amadeux.net/sublimen/documenti/REF_researchnote.pdf).BoostLight is also unique in that it can use your phone's cameralight todeliver pulses, allowing for high-intensity pulsescomparable tothose used in research.WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOOST AND BOOST LITE?Boost is an application developed by Neurelectrics which usesacombination of audio-visual entrainment and neurofeedback fromaNeurosky Mindwave headset. Boost Lite includes only theAVEcomponent of Boost, and can be used without a headset.HOW LONG DOES BOOST LITE TAKE TO WORK?In general, Boost Lite sessions should be 5 to 15 minuteslong.Increases in alpha frequency and cognitive clarity aretypicallyobserved within 30 minutes after the end of the sessionand last3-4 hours.WHO CAN USE BOOST LITE?Boost is designed for cognitive enhancement in healthy people.WhileBoost technology is very safe for most people, it should notbe usedby individuals with epilepsy or seizures. Boost should notbe usedto treat any disease or neurological/mental healthcondition.

Boost uses neuroscience technology to help youfeel more alert and improve your mental performance. Using feedbackfrom a MindWave Mobile headset (required), Boost increases thefrequency of electrical oscillations in your brain, improvingshort-term memory, attention, and alertness.HOW BOOST WORKSDuring normal wakefulness, the human brain generates electricalwaves at a rate of 8-12 oscillations per second. The speed of thesewaves is associated with cognitive performance and declines withage starting in young adulthood. Boost uses a combination ofneurofeedback and audio-visual entrainment (AVE) to speed up thesewaves, increasing cognitive performance.WHAT BOOST DOESIndependent and in-house studies have demonstrated that increasingthe speed of alpha waves can improve a wide range of cognitivefunctions, particularly short-term memory,a critical part ofintelligence.HOW LONG DOES BOOST TAKE TO WORK?Our research has shown that 1 to 3 5-15 minute sessions of Boostare usually needed for the brain to learn how to efficientlyincrease its alpha wave speed “on demand”. After the first fewsessions, most users notice effects which appear within 30 minutesof the end of the session and last several hours.WHO CAN USE BOOST?Boost is designed for cognitive enhancement in healthy people.While Boost technology is very safe for most people, it should notbe used by individuals with epilepsy or seizures. Boost should notbe used to treat any disease or neurological/mental healthcondition.WHY DO I NEED THE MINDWAVE HEADSET?The stimulation delivered by Boost is constantly adjusted based onmeasurements of your brain's electrical activity. The MindWaveMobile headset is required to detect and digitize this activity. Ifyou do not have a MindWave, you can purchase one at http://store.neurosky.com/products/mindwave-mobileTHE SCIENCE BEHIND BOOSTThe following citations describe the role of peak lpha frequency incognitive performance and the methods used by Boost.“Electroencephalographic peak alpha frequency correlates ofcognitivetraits”(www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304394004010523)“Increasing Individual Upper Alpha Power byNeurofeedback ImprovesCognitive Performancein Human Subjects”(http://www.twaamc.com/assets/files/pdf/neurofeedback-increase%20performance.pdf)“Neurofeedback training of the upper alpha frequency band in EEGimproves cognitive performance”(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381191001181X)“EEG Neurofeedback: A Brief Overview and an Example of Peak AlphaFrequency Training for Cognitive Enhancement in theElderly”(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13854040600744839#.U4lKKSjihJ8)“Academic Performance Enhancement with Photic Stimulation and EDRFeedback”(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J184v03n03_02#.U4lKsijihJ8)“Photic stimulation enhancement of peak alpha frequency andhigh/low alpha ratio”(http://www.amadeux.net/sublimen/documenti/REF_researchnote.pdf)Effects of 20-min audio-visual stimulation (AVS) at dominant alphafrequency and twice dominant alpha frequency on the corticalEEG(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876098000646)

See how your brain compares to others andhowit changes over time. BrainPrint uses quantitative EEGtechnologyto track brain metrics relevant to cognitive performancelike peakalpha frequency and central dopamine function.BrainPrint is based on a technology called quantitativeEEG,which uses signal processing algorithms to relate changes inthebrain's electrical activity to how it processesinformation.Quantitative EEG has been historically used in medicalsettings(for diagnosis of brain injury and epilepsy), butrecentadvancements in technology have lead to the emergence ofconsumerEEG recording devices capable of being used for thispurpose.NOTE:This version of BrainPrint requires an InteraxonMuseheadset. It will not work with the MindWave headset.Brain icons bydigitalbob8(https://www.flickr.com/photos/44568283@N02/4097561067)/CC BY

Sleep Boost is an app designed to enhancethebenefits of sleep on memory and other cognitive abilities. Itusesmotion sensors in your phone to detect when you enter deepsleep,and delivers auditory stimuli (white noise) timed toencourage yourbrain to produce slow oscillations which improvememory(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25389394)Sleep Boost can also log data on your sleep depth andsupportsdouble-blind controls so you can run your ownexperiments!For more technical data,seehttp://quicktotheratcave.tumblr.com/post/121143690938/sleep-hacking-on-the-cheap

OpenWave is a Wear OS app for experimenting with hapticstimulation.

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