Newsletter May 2016

Our wireless EEG cap is now available with 64 active gel-based electrodes.

NEW: g.Nautilus for Android
Develope Android applications with our wireless system.

Read more: g.Nautilus Specs & Features
Download the Product Brochure: g.Nautilus 64 Channels

Finally, the new catalogue is here! 
 
Browse through or download the new version: Product Catalogue 2016
If you're interested in a printed version, please contact:
 
Have a look behind the scenes of g.tec: Making of... The New Product Catalogue

Software Update g.BSanalyze
g.BSanalyze is now available for Windows 10 with Matlab 2015a, and now includes an integrated video player. Find more information here: g.BSanalyze

Software Update g.Recorder
g.Recorder has some new features:

• Data viewer was replaced by g.SCOPE
• Scope can now draw beyond the channel borders
• Several new kinds of autoscaling features included
• Impedance Measurement now includes numerical impedance values in addition to color coded shading
• Can load montage files from g.MONcreator
• Can apply visualization filters during raw data recording
• Real-time calculation and analysis of evoked potentials (EPs)
• Can print and make screenshots of the EPs

Find more information here: g.Recorder

New Software Interfaces for g.Nautilus
BCI2000 and OpenViBE recently developed a freely available interface for the g.Nautilus.

This year, more than 50 top-level research projects were submitted from all over the world. Congratulations to the 12 nominees!
The winners will be awarded during the 6^th International BCI Meeting in Asilomar, California (USA) on June 2^nd , 2016.
Read more: www.bci-award.com

Anouk Wipprecht is a Hi-Tech Fashion Designer. She combines fashion and technology with engineering, science and interaction/user experience design. She created "Agent Unicorn", an accessory for children with ADHD or autism that measures brain activity with g.SAHARA active dry electrodes.
Visit Anouk Wipprecht at the Augmented World Expo (USA) in June: AWE 2016
Read more: Interview with Anouk Wipprecht

Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro is the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University in Japan. His research has contributed to the development of human-like robots and the study of their interaction with humans. For his recent projects, he has been using the wireless EEG cap g.Nautilus  to control his robots. 
Read more: Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro

Mrs. Savin suddenly suffered a stroke. It was a horrible experience for her. We had the chance to talk with Mrs. Savin after she had participated in recoveriX therapy in addition to her conventional stroke therapy. 
Watch the invertiew with Mrs. Savin: recoveriX Success Story

Steven Laureys is a Belgian neurologist recognized worldwide in the field of consciousness. Steven is a testing partner within the ComaWare project, and uses the mindBEAGLE system for assessment and communication of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC). Dr. Brendan Allison, g.tec Senior Research Scientist, sat down to chat with Steven and ask him about his work.
Read more: Interview with Steven Laureys

The Journal of Neurosurgery has recently published an article on "Understanding Functional Dynamics of High Gamma Activity on Different Brain Regions during Language Tasks".
Yukie Tamura, Hiroshi Ogawa, Christoph Kapeller, Robert Prueckl, Fumiya Takeuchi, Ryogo Anei, Anthony Ritaccio, Christoph Guger, Kyousuke Kamada, Understanding Functional Dynamics of High Gamma Activity on Different Brain Regions during Language Tasks, Journal of Neurosurgery, in press, 2015

Conferences & Congresses

• BCI Meeting 2016 from May 30 - June 3, 2016 in California, USA
• Summer School and Symposia for Neurorehabiliation from June 6 - 10, 2016 in Baiona, Spain
• IFESS 2016 - International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society from June 8 - 10, 2016 in La Grande-Motte, France
• Neuro Rehab 2016 from June 15 - 16, 2016 in London, UK
• Neural Interfaces Joint Meeting from June 25 - 29, 2016 in Baltimore, USA
• OHBM 2016 - 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping from June 26 - 30, 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland
• 21^st Annual Congress of the ECSS from July 6 - 9, 2016 in Vienna, Austria
• 18^th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction from July 17 - 22, 2016 in Toronto, Canada
• EMBC 2016 from August 17 - 20, 2016 in Orlando, USA
• ECNS Annual Conference from September 7-11, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey

Satellite events BCI Meeting

• recoveriX and mindBEAGLE workshop: motor recovery neurotechnology and consciousness assessment and communication on May 30, 2016 in California, USA
• 11^th BCI2000 Workshop on May 30, 2016 in California, USA
• BCIs for stroke rehabilitation on June 1, 2016 in California, USA
• BCIs for assessment of locked-in and DOC patients on June 2, 2016 in California, USA

Satellite events EMBC

• Current and future directions of ECoG based mapping and BCI research on August 16, 2016 in Orlando, USA
• Communication, Restoration of Function, and Consciousness Assessment with BCI on August 16, 2016 in Orlando, USA

Events

• Cybathlon 2016: BCI Race on October 8, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland