Mind-Reading Headphones Pick Music Based on Your Mood

If shuffle is too random for you, let the Mico brainwavereading headphones read your mood and pick the right music to soothe the savage beast.

It’s late afternoon and you’re worn out and ready for a nap. You put on your Mico headphones and, as your eyelids droop, your headphones select a soothing mix of Kenny G, Enya, and Air Supply. A sensor sits on your forehead to help the device scan your brainwaves and interpret your mood. Soon, you’re off to la-la land.

Mico works with an app. The headphones relay your mood to the app, which then selects songs from its database of mood-tagged songs. It would be really cool if you could think of a song and it plays for you, but that’s out of the technological realm for Mico -- for now at least. Currently, it can only figure out if you’re stressed, sleepy, or focused.

The built-in forehead sensor looks a lot like a microphone that’s in the wrong place. There a little bit of an air-trafficcontrol aesthetic to these headphones. Whatever mood Mico detects is also shown on an indicator on the outside of the headphones. This could be a good warning for people to leave you alone when you’re stressed out and listening to a soothing song to try to cool down.

So far, Mico is an interesting novelty that could have a much more interesting future if the technology can improve. Wouldn’t it be sweet to connect something like this with your Spotify and discover new songs to match your mood?