Could you transform how you work? Improve the way you meditate? Find a new way to be creative?Melon is a headband and mobile app duo that tracks and helps you improve your focus in relation to your activity, your environment, your emotions, and any other behavior you want to track.A Lifestyle-Inspired Headband.From the beginning, the Melon headband was built to be worn while engaging in a variety of activities; from working, to studying, playing sports, dancing, practicing an instrument, programming, painting, or doing yoga.How Does the Melon Sensor Work?The Melon sensor turns focus into something measurable, understandable, and improvable. The Melon headband is a wireless brain-sensing device that uses EEG (electroencephalography) to measure your brain activity. From this activity, our algorithms detect your focus, and we use that data to give you personalized feedback on how to improve.We have partnered with a top producer of EEG signal processing chips to access the best available algorithms for mental state detection. EEG has been used widely in the medical and research fields for over a century, and we're excited to make the technology available to you through Melon.(Headbands are available in white or black.)Improve What You Do By Understanding The Things That Affect Your Focus.Input tags indicating activity, environment, behavior, and more. Wear the headband to monitor focus and learn what affects it.Melon learns about and displays your focus for you. Get personalized tips (optional) when your focus dips too low.Each time you use Melon, it learns about what helps and hurts your focus. Insights appear at the ends of sessions and are stored as trends.Understood Self.Melon Provides Personalized Insights.At Melon we are really interested in the idea of Understood Self, which we are trying to add to the movement of Quantified Self. We want people to have a great feedback system for the data we're capturing, so it can help with the activities users already do day-to-day, go beyond numbers and scores, and move towards insights and understanding.Find Your Focus With Origami.Play games to challenge yourself and achieve longer periods of focus.Better focus lets you fold origami faster and complete more complex creatures.The Science Behind Melon.The brain consists of billions of interconnected neurons. When a single neuron fires, it creates an almost imperceptible amount of electrical charge. During normal waking states, millions of neurons are firing collectively in your brain. The cumulative electrical activity that results can be measured on the forehead as brainwaves. Melon measures this global electrical activity by placing three electrodes on the forehead region, with the primary electrode on FP1. This allows Melon to monitor brainwave activity in the pre-frontal cortex.Melon is partnered with NeuroSky, the leader in consumer EEG technology. The Melon system benefits from NeuroSky's 9 years of experience with the following:Signal amplification, which makes raw brainwave signals stronger.Filtering protocols that eliminate known noise frequencies such as muscle movements and pulse.Notch filters that eliminate electrical noise from the grid, which varies from 50Hz to 60Hz, depending on geographic location.Filter technology remains at the forefront of NeuroSky R&D. The NeuroSky chip, used by Melon, filters out the ambient