Startup controls Google Glass by reading your mind

British startup This Place has developed a way to let users control Google Glass with their mind.

MindRDR, as the app has been named, converts the wearer's brainwaves, collected by the MindWave Mobile EEG monitor from NeuroSky, into commands for the head-mounted wearable.

According to the developers, this lets users control the device "by simply concentrating and relaxing", rather than having to touch Glass or use voice recognition.

Wearers will see a horizontal line that sits in the middle of the screen which moves up the more they concentrate and down the more they relax.

Once the line reaches the top of the screen, This Place claims, Google Glass will take a photo.

The user can then decide to share the picture on social media, by raising the line again, or discard it by letting the line fall to the bottom.

Currently, taking pictures and uploading them is all the wearer can do. However, This Place has made MindRDR open-source, posting the code to GitHub in the hopes of expanding this capability.

Dusan Hamlin, founder and CEO of This Place, said MindRDR could eventually "enable those with locked-in syndrome, severe multiple sclerosis or quadriplegia to interact with the wider world using Google Glass".

Chloe Kirton, creative director of This Place, said the company was already in talks with world-famous physicist Steven Hawking, who suffers from Motor Neurone Disease, and others "about the possibilities MindRDR could bring as the product evolves".

Here's a video showing how it works: