g.tec Newsletter February 2009 Volume 23

This is the g.tec medical engineering electronic news bulletin. Articles provide tips, user reports and shortcuts for using g.tec's product family, as well as other technical, product, service and event information.

Products

g.GAMMAcap

is the newest EEG electrode cap developed by g.tec. It supports active and passive gold and Ag/AgCl (g.BUTTERfly and g.LADYbird) electrodes, is very fast to assemble and easy to handle.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.Accessories/Cap.htm

Complete BCI2000 system

g.tec offers a complete certified BCI2000 system including amplifiers, electrodes, caps and notebook computer.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.BCI2000/g.BCI2000.htm

Complete Virtual Reality system with link to biosignals

g.tec offers a complete virtual reality system consisting of a powerwall with 3D projections that exchanges data with the biosignal acquisition and analysis system.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.VRsys/g.VRsys.htm

News

Robot Control with Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEP)

Brain-computer interface realized with steady state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) to navigate a robot.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.BCIsys/SSVEP_Newsletter.htm

Smart Home

Using a brain-computer interface for virtual environment control. This new device was developed to control all the functions of a house. The system allows switching on the TV, playing music, opening and closing the doors and windows, operating a camera at the door, walking through the house, and many more other activities.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.BCIsys/SM.htm

Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) meets Culture Capital Linz 2009 - g.tec @ the AEC Linz

At the beginning of the Cultural Capital Year 2009 Ars Electronica opens its new “Museum of the Future”, where everybody can try the brain-computer interface to control robots, to navigate through a smart home and to write letters by thinking.

http://www.gtec.at/Press/AEC/BCIatAEC.htm

g.tec came in third at the "Landespreis für Innovation 2008"

For the smart home technology g.tec achieved the third place of the innovation price 2008 in Upper Austria.

http://www.gtec.at/profile/LandesInnovationspreis2008.htm

g.AnTS video: tracking multiple balls

g.AnTS can be used to track multiple objects. The included algorithms are able to detect new items automatically.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.AnTS/g.AnTS_Balls.htm

g.AnTS algorithms

This article introduces the algorithms which are responsible for the diversity of g.AnTS.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.AnTS/NL_Algo.htm

Our new Distributor

China

Bioreco
Mr. Huaxiao Liu
Zhang Shuang
China Soft Building
No. 6 Jia, Xinkexiangyuan
Academy of Science South Road,
Zhong Guan Cun, Haidian District,
Beijing China  100080
Tel: 8610-62570007, 13811412823
bioreco@yahoo.com.cn

http://www.gtec.at/distributors.htm

Events & Workshops

March 03 - 08, 2009: Visit us at our booth at the CeBIT 2009

The CeBIT opens its doors on the 3rd of March 2009 and the g.tec team would be glad to meet you at our booth (Hall 9, Booth C89/3) to test our new BCI system. Feel free to contact us for a free ticket to one of the worlds largest ICT events. Send an e-mail now!

ohlinger@gtec.at

Future and Emerging Technologies

Visit us at FET Open in Prague to see our newest BCI system, the rat-GPS and place cell analysis system and the rehabilitation gaming system for stroke patients.

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/index_en.htm

Report of the BCI workshop at the Neuroscience 2008

Here you can find a link to a short report of the g.tec's BCI workshop at the SfN 2008 in Washington D.C. Thank you to all the 100 visitors for attending.

http://www.gtec.at/service/SfN_WS_Report.htm

Events

Meet us at the following exhibitions and conferences in 2009:

	Cebit 2009 (Hall 9, Booth C89/3)	Mar. 03 - 08	Hannover, GE
	Rave 09 Workshop	Mar. 04	Barcelona, ES
	Neuromath Workshop Leuven	Mar. 12 - 13	Leuven, BE
	g.tec BCI workshop at Cognitive Neuroscience Register Now	Mar. 21	San Francisco, US
	Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting 2009	Mar. 21 - 24	San Francisco, US
	European Future Technologies Conference	April 21 - 23	Praha, CZ
	g.tec BCI workshop at ESANN Register Now	April 25	Gent, BE
	European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks	April 22 - 24	Bruges , BE
	Laval Virtual - VRIC09 International Conference	Apr. 22. - 26	Laval, FR
	RomMedica	April 23 - 25	Bucharest, RO
	4th Int. IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering	April 29-May 2	Antalya, TR
	XVR workshop	May 28 - 29	Pisa, IT
	7th NFSI (Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain and Heart) & ICBEM (Bioelectromagnetism) 2009	May 29 - 31	Rome, IT
	IWANN 2009 - Artifical Neural Networks	Jun. 10 - 12	Salamanca, ES
	g.tec's BCI workshop at the Cybertherapy Register Now	Jun. 21	Lago Maggiore, IT
	Cybertherapy	Jun. 21 - 23	Lago Maggiore, IT
	g.tec's BCI workshop at the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Register Now	Jul. 19	San Diego, US
	Human Computer Interaction (HCI) International 2009, 13th conference	Jul. 19 - 24	San Diego, US

Best regards from Austria,
Guenter Edlinger and Christoph Guger

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