Emotiv Systems is an

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electronics innovation company developing technologies to evolve human computer interaction incorporating non-conscious cues into the human-computer dialog to emulate human to human interaction. Developing

brain–computer interface A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a brain–machine interface (BMI) or smartbrain, is a direct communication pathway between the brain's electrical activity and an external device, most commonly a computer or robotic limb. B ...

s (BCIs) based on

electroencephalography Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The biosignals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in the neocorte ...

(EEG) technology, Emotiv Systems produced the EPOC near headset, a peripheral targeting the gaming market for

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and

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platforms. The EPOC has 16 electrodes and was originally designed to work as a BCI

input device In computing, an input device is a piece of equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system, such as a computer or information appliance. Examples of input devices include keyboards, mouse, scanners, cameras ...

. The company was founded in 2003 by technology entrepreneurs

Tan Le Tan Le ( Vietnamese: ''Lê Thị Thái Tần'', born 20 May 1977), a Vietnamese-Australian telecommunications entrepreneur, is a co-founder of Emotiv. She was named the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. In 2019 Tan Le became a member of Rho Chi ...

, Nam Do,

Allan Snyder Allan Whitenack Snyder (born 1942) is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind. He is a co-founder of Emotiv Systems and winner of th ...

, and

Neil Weste Neil H. E. Weste (born 1951), is an Australian inventor and engineer, noted for having designed a 2-chip wireless LAN implementation and for authoring the textbook ''Principles of CMOS VLSI Design''. He has worked in many aspects of integrated-circ ...

. However, doing a search of business entity name on Emotiv Systems at the business entity registry of the California Secretary of State reveals Emotiv Systems has ceased to exist, and, therefore, it should not be mixed up or confused with the currently active U.S. bioinformatics company

Emotiv Emotiv Inc. is a privately held bio-informatics and technology company developing and manufacturing wearable electroencephalography (EEG) products including neuroheadsets, software development kits (SDK), software, mobile apps, and data products. ...

founded by

in 2011 in which Nam Do, Allan Snyder, and Neil Weste have no ownerships nor roles.

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Tan Le: A headset that reads your thoughts

Brain control headset for gamers
By Darren Waters, 20 February 2008, BBC News

By David H. Freedman, 1 December 2008, Inc. Magazine profile Brain–computer interfacing Companies established in 2003 2003 establishments in Australia

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