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Brainwave Biofeedback Caps Ready for Prime Time -- AP -- MSNBC Video

Links for this Post: New Toys Read Brain Waves By Rachel Konrad, Associated Press in Netscape News Brain-reading biofeedback caps on the rise, NeuroSky returns by Darren Murph in Engadget Video on MSNBC from MSNBC: Mind-reading toys could revolutionize play...

Boosting Brain Power May Be Steps Away -- CBS News

Link for this Post: Boosting Brain Power May Be Steps Away CBS News and Time Magazine have gotten together a new series called "A User's Guide to the Brain." This article is part of the series published tpdau about a...

Journal of the AMA Study Shows That Brain Training Games Keep Your Mind Healthy

Link for this Post: "Time To Rack Your Brains" By Rebecca Ascher-Walsh - New York Post This Post article is a commentary on a Journal of the American Medical Association" article published last week. Here are the quoted conclusions excerpted...

Top Self-Improvement Leaders Featured on The Optimization Series Radio Podcasts -- FREE!

Links for this Post: You need iTunes for the free subscription to the podcasts and you can download iTunes FREE from this link! Optimization Series Radio Podcasts Feature Top Self-Improvement Leaders The Optimization Series Radio Podcasts features a series of...

Breakthrough Biofeedback Technology Healing Rhythm -- New Video Download!

Link for this Post:Healing Rhythms Biofeedback Video Demo Earlier this week, I posted about Wild Divine Project's new breakthrough product, the Healing Rhythms Biofeedback Training System. Today, The released a video demo of the the new system which you can...

"Gamers may soon control action with thoughts" -- Mercury News

Link for this post: "Gamers may soon control action with thoughts" By Dean Takahashi in the Mercury News In the previous post, I wrote about progress on a mental typewriter. Here is some news about mental joysticks that are being...

Thoughts Trigger Mental Typewriter -- Discovery Channel News

Link for this post: "Thoughts Trigger Mental Typewriter" By Tracy Staedter, Discovery News On a post last week about the Whitemoke writing embellishment software, "Maybe some day we will get to the point where all we do is think and...

Find Out How Happy You Are -- Free Test from BBC News (You Can Take in a Minute)

Links for this post: Test your happiness The science of happiness By Mike Rudin Series producer, The Happiness Formula BBC News BBC News is doing a six-part weekly series called the Science of Happiness. Here is an excerpt from the...

gizmag Article: New Computer Interface Provides a Mental Typewriter and Brain Pong

Link for this post: gizmag Article: The Mental Typewriter. The human-computer interface took a big leap with the unveiling of a mental typewriter at the CeBit Conference in Berlin Germany last week The new system is called the Berlin Brain-Computer...

NeuroSky: Convert Your Brainwaves & Eye Movements Into Useful Electronic Signals To Communicate With Electronic Devices Such As Your Phone or PC

Links for this post: NeruoSky Ten Must-Read Tech Stories David M. Ewalt, in June of last year listed on Mind Control Made Simple By Mark Frauenfelder. According to the piece of Fraumfelder of Wired and Boing Boing fame, Neurosky is:...

Relaxation key to winning meditation-like game

Link for this post "Relaxation key to winning meditation-like game" By Michael Blinn in the Portsmouth Herald. This game uses actual brainwave EEG feedback to allow these children to play a game. Here is an excerpt from the article: Travis...

Attention deficit disorder? Try video games from Tech News on ZDNet

Link for this post: Attention deficit disorder? Try video games | Tech News on ZDNet. Here is an excerpt from the article by Stefanie Olsen: When her 11-year-old son was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder last year, Janet Herlihey warmed...

This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis - New York Times

Link: This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis - By Sandra Blakeslee New York Times People vary in thier ability to go into a hypnotic state. Those able to go into trances more deeply are called "hypnotizable." Scientists studying people under...

Fortune Magazine's Business Innovation 2005: What are the right questions to ask about innovation? Discover the answer from the SolutionPeople

Links for this post: The SolutionPeople and their unique "Questionate-to-Innovate" method Fortune Magazine's Innovation Blog presents Business Innovation 2005: What are the right questions to ask about innovation?. Here is an excerpt: According to Gerald "SolutionMan" Haman, the president of...

BBC NEWS | Health | Web psychotherapy 'just as good' (as face to face counseling)

Link: BBC NEWS | Health | Web psychotherapy 'just as good'. On the BBC today,"Web psychotherapy 'just as good'" Here is an excerpt: Web psychotherapy 'just as good' Some people may benefit from web-based advice Therapy delivered via the internet...

On Business Wire: Dean Ornish, M.D Talks About Wild Divine's New Wisdom Quest Biofeedback Game -- Plus New Tech

While looking for news on the Wisdom Quest, the new biofeedback game software by The Wild Divine Project which I posted about recently, I came across their press release on Business Wire titled "The Wild Divine Project Announces the Creation...

Find Out If You Have The Mind of a Millionaire -- Free Test from the BBC

Find out if you have what it takes to make it big! At BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - TV Programmes - Mind of a Millionaire you can take a free test to find out...

BBC TV Program What Am I Like: the Personality Test -- Plus Several Free Tests!

The BBC Science and Nature features a variety of televsion programs about psychology. This one is called "What Am I Like " and is about personality testing. This link is to an area with suplimental material. The "What Am I...

USATODAY.com - Want a sharp mind for your golden years? Start now

USATODAY.com - Want a sharp mind for your golden years? Start now.By Marilyn Elias suggests that we should begin developing a "congitive researve account." Here is an excerpt: Knowing they'll need a nest egg for later years, sensible middle-aged adults...

Become a Better Human

BetterHumans.Com's main message is that we can create our own future. New breakthroughs in biotech, neurotech and nanotech mean that people will live longer and better lives. This website keeps you posted on the latest developments in all these fields....

Mastery TV: Internet Self-Improvement Televsion Network with On-Demand Video

There have been a lot of attempts to create a self-improvement TV Network. The latest, Mastery TV presents video on demand broadcasts of a variety of self-improvement leaders and experts.I will write more about Mastery TV in a feature article...

In the New Scientist: "11 steps to a better brain"

In the New Scientist "11 steps to a better brain" by Kate Douglas ,Alison George ,Bob Holmes,,Graham Lawton ,John McCrone ,Alison Motluk and Helen Phillips Here is an excerpt of the introduction: It doesn't matter how brainy you are or...

Wild Divine Biofeedback Project's Second Part of Trilogy -- Wisdom Quest -- to Ship September 15!

Updated: A lot of you have been asking me: "what's up" with Wisdom Quest, the long promised second part in the Journey to Wild Divine Trilogy. The long awaited Part two of the Biofeedback Adventure Journey to Wild Divine, titled...

Online Therapy, Counseling & Mental Health Resources from CounsellingResource.com

"Online Therapy, Counselling & Mental Health Resources" from CounsellingResource.com is a "guide for consumers" to mental health and mental health services. The site includes news, blogs, forums, links and information in a wide variety of areas related to councelling and...

Procrastinators: Don’t put off reading this!

Dr. Gale Saltz, a New York City Psychiatrist and Professor is featured with an article and accompanying video (uses Windows Media Player) on MSNBC's Today, "Procrastinators: Don’t put off reading this!: About 20 percent of Americans are chronic procrastinators. Dr....

US Memory Championship

On Slate Magazine, "Forget Me Not: How to win the U.S. memory championship." By Joshua Foer. Here is an expert: To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You...

Plebius Press - Psychology Resource Center

Plebius Press - Psychology Resource Center contains an amazing range of resources including psychology news, access to related Internet Newsgroups, an encyclopedia, user journals for members and much more. Well worth a visit.

Cogitive Daily Keeps You Up To Date

Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field. The research isn't dumbed down, but it's explained in language that everyone can understand, with clear illustrations and references to...

Happiness TV

"Welcome to the World's First and only Television Program Entirely About Our Greatest Desire in Life Happiness" is how the show introduces itself. According to the "Happiness Show" Streaming Internet and Cable TV website, the show was created and produced...

Social Software Meets Motivation at 43 Things

Forty-Three Things is a new way to manage your goals within the context of social software that takes your goals and turn them into tags to share with others on the network. Here is an excerpt from a salon article...

Special Holiday Mindware Super Sale

Fifteen years ago I started the Mindware Catalog, the first collection ever of new computer software mindtools for personal computer. I just sent a newsletter to the thousands of Mindware customers, offering them special holiday prices on three of the...

Google Launches Free Desktop Search Software

Google this morning launched its long anticipated search software for the desktop. The software can be downloaded at a special Google Desktop site. It allows for searches of files including Microsoft Office documents in Word, Excel and powerpoint, HTML documents...

Alice the Chatbot Has Won the Loebner Prize for the Third Time

In an article on the BBC World News, it is reported that Alice an artifically intelligent "chatbot" has won the prestigious Loebner Prize for human-like conversation for the third time. You can chat with Alice on the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence...

Updated My Dream Machine Is Here!

" Updated: Those of you who read me regularly know that this spring, I started developing a serious case of Mac envy. I had been reading about some really innovative mindtool software being developed for the Mac. Also, I have...

Amplified Intelligence: Machines as brain boosters

"Amplified Intelligence: Machines as brain boosters" features an interview with Ken Ford, a scientist who contracts with NASA to study "AI." But the "AI" he studies is not artificial intelligence. Rather he redefined the acronym to mean " "Amplified Intelligence."...

Bill Clinton's Favorite Self-Improvement Book -- Get It Here Free

Free! Time Management 2.0 by Alan Lakein. Bill Clinton's new autobiography, My Life, starts this way: "When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly...