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With Futuremind, you get a powerful, professional quality, advanced programmable L/S stimulation tool intended for exploring brain growth, mind expansion and altered states of consciousness. As the name suggests, it is the mental fitness dynamo for todays generation of Cyberminds. Futuremind glasses produce amazingly bright, crisp, vivid visuals that will let you delve into beautiful new worlds of mesmerizing, dazzling, kaleidoscopic colors, shapes and patterns, while you will be surrounded by deep and rich sounding, immersive, ambient vibrations that you can allmost feel moving, shaking, pulsing and blasting alive!
Control Unit
Handheld, lightweight PC-periphal photic stimulation controller Features on/off slide switch, high precision brightness adjustment knob Indicator LED's on the device for power, left and right light channel Connectors for glasses, PC-interface cable and power supply Operation with internal (9V battery) or external (wall plug adapter) power supply
Glasses
Lite frame sports sunglasses with dark tinted, mirrored plastic glasses Comfortable fit through rubber nosepiece and adjustable earpieces Contains 6 (3 per eye) 5 mm ultrabright, water clear red LED's Mounted optimally positioned to the eyes in triangular shape Outstanding intensity produces vivid, crisp imagery for maximum entertainment
PC-Connector
250 cm (8 ft) quality shielded PC-interface cable with 25pin Sub-D connector Connects into any standard PC parallel (printer, LPT) port
Notes
Device is PC-controlled, portable usage is possible with Notebook/Laptop Works as Ganzfeld device only, when disconnected from the PC-interface Optional two user operation with Y-adapter and extra glasses possible Quality 9V DC power supply or 9V block battery is included with the device
Hardware Requirements
PC 486DX-33 MHz or better
VGA compatible display
minimum 1 MB RAM, minimum 500 KB free Conventional Memory
MS DOS 5.0 or later (or 100% compatible)
3.5" floppy drive required, hard disk and mouse recommended
SB Pro (OPL3, stereo) or compatible soundcard, also works with
SB 16, SB 32, PAS 16, MS WSS, ESS Audiodrive soundcards / sound systems
speakers or headphones (quality stereo headphones recommended)
parallel (printer, LPT) port for interfacing Futuremind to the PC
CD-ROM drive optional for future use with audio CD playback
Software Scope
Professional development tool for creating and managing advanced L/S programs
Interactive control center for real-time controlling the photo-sonic stimulation
Transforms your multimedia-capable PC into a state-of-the-art mind machine
Raises L/S technology to new levels of flexibility, functionality and performance by utilizing the PC's vast data storage, graphics display and CPU processing power
Software Features
Installation and Setup is easy and straightforward. Settings are preserved in an INI-file.
Autodetection of soundcard type and port address. No external audio drivers required.
Modern intuitive graphical user interface, fully mouse and keyboard operated
Easy to use Windows, Menu's, Dialog-Boxes, Buttonbar, Online-Help, Hotkeys
Comfortably Load, Save, Create, Edit, Test and Playback L/S programs Cool graphical display of the L/S parameters (single ramp or whole session) L/S Editors provide Clipboard Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Undo functions Playback can start at any ramp beginning, Pause and Resume is always possible
L/S programs are conveniently maintained in MindTech's compact .LSD dataformat
L/S programs are stored with long session name, author info and descriptive comments
Now with 10 breathtaking, mind-boggling, professional quality L/S programs
L/S Programming Specs
Virtually no limits to the number, length and complexity of L/S programs Up to 255 ramps per session, ramp duration from 1 sec. to 1 hour, max. 24 hours per program
Configurable Timer Resolution (1 - 8 KHz) and Countdown Timer (0 - 255 sec)
pitch frequency (0032.0 - 4096.0 Hz) and voice volume (0 - 99 %) control, independently
programmable and smoothly, simultaneously rampable for 2 light channels and 8 sound voices
Selectable Rampmodes: Synchronous, Alternating, Phase-Shifted and Independent
Programmable Speaker Output: voices can sound to the right, left, none or both speakers
Programmable Phase: voices can be pulsed in phase with the right, left, none or both channels
Setup all sound voices to generate pulsed or continuos tones in any combination, enabling advanced stimulation patterns, e.g. quad binaural beats or pulsed chords of up to 8 notes
Major innovation: General MIDI compatible FM instrument patchbank with 129 timbres - use realistic sounding instruments with powerful harmonics instead of simple sinewave tones
Soundcard mixer programming for Main, FM Synth, CD, Line In and Microphone volumes
Can combine binaural beat programming with any external audio signal (e.g. CD, tape with psycho-acoustic music, thru connecting the audio source to the LINE IN jack of the soundcard)
Final Version 1.x for DOS Software Features
Completed session library with 25 professionally designed L/S programs Functions to plot session graphics and print program data to printer or disk file Bound printed user manual including easy to understand 'getting started tutorial'
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"A light and sound machine is a brainwave entrainment tool. The method by which this
entrainment occurs is known as the Frequency Following Response (FFR). Through
the use of audio (headphones) & visual (eye frames with LEDs) stimulation,
listeners are gently guided into specific brainwave states. Each audio beat and
pulse is a specific frequency. Our minds "think" in terms of frequency.
Brainwaves change frequencies based on neural activity within the brain, be it
by hearing, touch, smell, vision and/or taste. These senses respond to activity
from the environment and transmits that information to the brain via electrical
signals. Hearing + vision are considered the favorable senses for affecting
brainwaves safely. By presenting these beats & pulses to the brain, within a few
minutes, the brain begins to mimic or follow the same frequencies as the stimuli
(the beats and pulses). This process is referred to as entrainment. In essence,
these instruments speak to the
