This Headband Controls Your Smartphone With Your Brain

Google Glasses? Passe. Voice-controlled intelligent agents? So over. Controlling the tempo of "Call Me Maybe" with your heartbeat? Please. The future of wearable computing is all about using your noggin.

That's what the Muse headband promises to do. Currently seeking funding on Indiegogo (see the smartly produced and highly convincing video above), the Muse is a lightweight plastic controller that slips onto your forehead and connects to your smartphone or tablet.

Not only can the Muse give you feedback on how you're doing mentally -- calm, agitated, focused, distracted -- it can also be used to control any app you care to name. You could, in theory, shop this way. (Paying attent…
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