g.tec Newsletter May 2009 Volume 24

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 & Projects

New g.USBamp - discover the colors of science

Award winning technology for biosignal acquisition.

http://www.gtec.at/products/g.USBamp/gUSBamp.htm

EU project Synthetic forager - position tracking demonstrator with action potentials from rats

At the Future Emerging Technology conference in Prague 2009 visitors could experience the position tracking setup that analyzes hippocampal place cells in rats

http://www.gtec.at/research/SF-NL24.htm

ReNaChip

g.tec is involved in the EU-funded project ReNaChip where a prosthetic chip will be developed for the rehabilitation of a discrete motor learning function

http://www.gtec.at/research/RenaChip-NL24.htm

News

The multimodal brain orchestra

UPF, Barcelona and g.tec show the first real-time controlled orchestra with 4 BCI sytems at FET Open in Prague. Watch the video.

http://www.gtec.at/service/FET2009_Report.htm

ECoG - Measurment at the Albany Medical Center

EcOG based BCI research using BCI2000 and g.USBamps

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

Brain-Computer Interface used to post messages to Twitter

In early April, Adam Wilson - University of Wisconsin-Madison posted a status update on the social networking web site Twitter — just by thinking about it.

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

Fireworks of Concentration

At the museum AEC Linz the visitors could try to control a robot only by the power of their brain.

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

Events & Workshops

May 28, 2009: XVR & BCI workshop in Pisa

This workshop has a strong technological content, and it is for anyone involved or interested in VR, BCI and physiology application development. It will expose the overall framework of XVR  and BCI technology, showing how it can be used in a range of common situations. It will also present a collection of projects completed or under development, and it will offer the opportunity to discuss the technical aspects involved in Virtual Reality development. Send an e-mail now!

oehlinger@gtec.at

June 21, 2009: Workshop at the Cybertherapy, Lago Maggiore, Italy

The g.tec BCI Workshop will show EEG data acquisition, real-time parameter and classification algorithms for computer control by thoughts. People will learn how to run experiments with BCI and VR technologies. Register now!

oehlinger@gtec.at

July 19, 2009: BCI workshop in San Diego

We invite you to this BCI Workshop on July 19th 2009. It is a satelite event at the HCI 2009 in San Diego. The half-day workshop should give you the know-how to create your own BCI experiments and to learn more about the fascinating world of Brain-Computer Interface. Send an e-mail now!

oehlinger@gtec.at

Events

Meet us at the following exhibitions and conferences in 2009:

	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
	Wetice	Jun. 29-Jul 01	Groningen, NL
	Berlin Brain-Computer Interface 2009	Jul. 08-10	Berlin, DE
	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
	EMBC 2009	Sep. 02-06	Minneapolis, US
	Workshop on Affective Brain-Computer Interface 2009	Sep. 09	Amsterdam, NL
	5th BCI2000 Workshop	Oct. 01-03	Lake George, US
	Neuroscience 2009	Oct. 17-21	Chicago, US
	Medica 2009	Nov. 18-21	Düsseldorf, DE

Best regards from Austria,
Guenter Edlinger and Christoph Guger

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