Hitachi Develops Portable Photo-topography Equipment for Measuring Brain Activities in Daily Life -- Tech-On!

Hitachi Ltd's Advanced Research Laboratory has prototyped a portable photo-topography equipment, which weighs only 1 kg. As using this equipment allows easy measurement of brain activities in daily life, "Not just for medical applications, photo-topography technology will be more familiar to us. For example, this technology may be useful for health care application with observing a trend in everyday measurements," said Hitachi. The company also explains about some other application fields such as psychology, marketing and education.