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Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by peteforde on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:11AM (#50411336)
I finally got around to firing up the Neurosity Crown I bought some years ago to experiment with BCI. Lights are on, but nobody is home; it knows the position of my head, but no actual EEG data is coming into the system.

Multiple attempts to contact any kind of support have gone unanswered, and according to Reddit the founders appear to have quietly disappeared, which pisses me off more than a little bit. This thing was not cheap.

Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by toonvanvr on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:21AM (#50411379)
That sounds like the perfect use case for Reverse Engineer Anything, and it's totally justified..
Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by peteforde on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:48AM (#50412448)
I certainly wouldn't be opposed! But in this case, I strongly suspect that there's something electronically wrong with my unit.

I'm quite confident that other people are happily using theirs. It's just that mine doesn't work.

Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by chychiu on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:22AM (#50411381)
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Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by peteforde on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:49AM (#50412454)
That would be a pretty excellent outcome. Thanks for posting.