Musinaut have developed a device which uses sensors to determine your state of mind and changes the music accordingly. Apparently it uses their own MXP4 format and can only change certain aspects of the specially recorded track you’re currently listening to. Even though it’s certainly an interesting piece of technology, I’d personally prefer having the music changing my mood rather than the opposite.
last.fm keeps me locked in to the genre’s I’m already listening to by suggesting songs and bands similar to the one’s I’ve scrobbled, and now this device would lock me in to the mood I’m in by playing music according to my current state of mind. I’m sure you could override its choices but then you could just get a normal MP3 player instead, couldn’t you?
Regardless of how you feel about it, the headgear alone looks ridiculous and should be enough to make you buy an iPod instead. Still, the technology is pretty cool but I wish it could let me skip tracks using brainwaves instead.
http://gizmodo.com/5057341/musinaut-music-player-djs-music-according-to-your-brainwaves
Right on, I agree. Why make things complicated if they can be simple.
I also note that too often, do journalists publish info without doing their homework?
There’s so much change ahead and a few innovations around including iklax, mt9 audio formats… actually not going beyond the star trek age brainreading, but in the conceivable and usable!
I definitely agree the iklax and mt9 formats are very usable to a remixer, a karaoke hostess or something like that, but I wonder which self-respecting producer or mix engineer would leave it to the listener to set the final mix of his production?
I guess they wouldn’t have to give up complete control of their songs, leaving the listener to choose between ‘acapella’, ‘full’ or ‘instrumental’ but that doesn’t really require a new audio format, just 10 more minutes in the studio to create the two extra versions.