Temple eyes pilot fitness and thought-to-text research
By Abha Lohia ·
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- Temple is a head-worn wearable from Deepinder Goyal that tracks changes linked to blood flow in the brain
- Goyal says the sensing could one day help judge if pilots or armed forces personnel are fit for duty
- A research team is also studying turning thoughts into text, which he puts a few years and several versions away
What happened
- Goyal sees pilot fitness checks as a possible use.
- The same data might help choose personnel for missions.
- A thoughts-to-text project is under research.
- It may arrive in the third or fourth version of the device.
- For now the focus stays on physiological sensing.
Why it matters
- Fitness-to-fly questions are in the news after a recent airline incident.
- Brain-linked data would set the wearable apart from watches.
The business
- Temple sits on the side of the head.
- Its BrainFlow feature tracks changes tied to brain blood flow.
- A second validation study used 60 participants across three physiological challenges.
- Readings correlated 0.84 to 0.91 with a lab method for brain blood volume.
The founders
In numbers
60Study participants · 2026
What happens next
- Pre-orders for a limited launch edition are expected soon.
Words to know
- NIRS
- A light-based method for measuring blood volume changes in tissue.
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