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NextSense Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain | WIRED
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This Startup Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain
Born from Alphabet's “moonshot” division, NextSense aims to sell earbuds that can collect heaps of neural data—and uncover the mysteries of gray matter.
Can a teeny-tiny earbud open a window to the body's most mysterious organ? Jen Dwyer, NextSense's medical director, and her team aim to find out.Photograph: Christie Hemm Klok
Konstantin Borodin is an ear nerd. He’s been looking into them, literally and professionally, for more than a decade. Even in social situations, he’ll find his attention drifting lobeward. “Sometimes I get weird looks,” he says.
I met Borodin when he measured my ears and their outer canals for custom-fit buds that can pick up my brain waves. To create a mold, you usually have to fill the ear with a warm waxy substance, but Borodin uses a device called the eFit Scanner that measures its precise dimensions with a laser. The size of an Oculus Quest, the scanner has twin eyepieces and a metal camera nozzle that looks like a long stinger.
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