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 dialogue to emulate human to human interaction. Developing

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

s (BCIs) based on

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

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

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

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. Emotive Systems Pty Ltd was founded in 2003 by technology entrepreneurs

Tan Le Tan Le (Vietnamese: ''Lê Thị Thái Tần'', born 20 May 1977) is a Vietnamese-born Australian telecommunications entrepreneur and a co-founder of Emotiv. She was named the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. Career As president of the Vietna ...

, 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 t ...

, 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-cir ...

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. ...

Research Pty Ltd was founded in 2011 also by Tan Le. Nam Do, Allan Snyder, and Neil Weste are not affiliated with this business. This business has operated in America under the name Emotiv Lifesciences Inc until December 2013 when it became Emotiv Inc. It is not affiliated with Emotiv Systems.

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Tan Le: A headset that reads your thoughts
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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 interface Electronics companies established in 2003 Australian companies established in 2003

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