14 year old "Inception"
reporter Li Li
"I began to contact the computer from the age of three or four, and the first computer program was written in grade three, the" HELLO WORLD "that all the programming people had practiced. I didn't feel excited when I saw the characters written on the computer screen, but it was too simple. Zhu Zhongmin, who has just risen to grade nine, has a few steady children of the same age. It quickly introduces himself to the computer, with a gleaming black eye. "What interests me most about computers is hardware and circuit design. When I was in grade six, I took part in the school computer interest group. I didn't take part in any computer training class, so many things were done and done naturally.
each class is used to improve the program. At noon break time, read the books on the principles of compilation, read the books on the operating system on the car on the way, and check the loopholes in the computer on the computer at night and go to bed at 11. Zhu Zhongmin's schedule seemed to be busy and seemed to have no time to make friends. But Zhu Zhongmin said: "on the Internet, you can easily find people who are like-minded. Because I like hardware development, I know many friends in Chuang guest space. Last year, I joined a friend in the "guest marathon" and won two mobile phone awards.
the word "Chuang Ke" comes from the English word "Maker". It refers to a person who does not take profit as the goal and tries to transform all kinds of ideas into reality. They are most willing, energetic, enthusiastic and able to create a better life. Innovation, practice, willingness to share and pursue a better life. To put it simply, "create customers" is to play a group of innovative people.
the idea of Zhu Zhongmin and his companions last year on "creating a marathon" was an "air electronic organ": using a light sensor to perceive the position of the hand in the air, triggering the virtual keys in the computer program by the difference of the finger position, so that no real keyboard was needed, and a piece of music could be played with a hand in the air. .
in the summer of a "marathon marathon", Zhu Zhongmin led the team's "dream - control eye mask" to attract the attention of the contestants.
group research and development control dream
Zhu Zhongmin said that the idea of "controlling dreams" originally was due to the film "Star Trek" with a plot to control dreams with instruments. "I have consulted some information, and have understood the emergence of dreams. I think it is feasible to control dreams with some external stimuli."
Zhu Zhongmin said that every time the human brain goes to sleep, the human brain goes through several repetitive cycles, and dreams occur in the "rapid eye movement sleep phase" (also called REM), which is not moving, but the brain is active. In addition to REM sleep stage, there is also non REM sleep. Non REM sleep can be divided into three stages, during which the body will move and the brain will not be active. The alternating cycle between these stages is called standard sleep structure, which can be circulated several times in one night's sleep.
"rapid eye movement sleep stage" is not deep sleep. If people can realise that they are dreaming in dreams, they can control dreams. It is generally believed that the REM stage should have been a closed short term memory part, because some kind of stimulus ("I am dreaming") resumed activity, but the part of the dream was not closed, so it became a state of control of the dream.
"my assumption is to measure the eye movement frequency and heart rate of the sleeper, thus judging whether he is in the REM stage. If the sleeper is detected in the REM stage, he is prompted by light, sound, and vibration, making him realize that he is dreaming and thus actively controlling the dream through consciousness. The spinning gyroscope in the movie "Inception" has such a function, it can remind people whether they are in dreamland, and what I have made is the top.
Zhu Zhongmin immediately drew several of his like-minded allies after opening his ideas in the open space. Two college students and a "Chuang guest" who have joined the work joined Zhu Zhongmin's team. So the 14 year old led three teammates who were older than him to start research and development.
Magic Eye Mask continues dream
Zhu Zhongmin named this dream mask as Dream Swimmer, "I hope it can keep a dream in its own way, or wake up to remember a good dream." At present, the Dream Swimmer has been developed to the fourth generation. Its original prototype was mounted on a common eye mask with LED lights, micromotor oscillators, and WMA audio decoding and playback modules. After debugging, the users who wear the eye mask can be stimulated by the functions of "light", "vibration", "music", "buzzing" and so on to realize that they are in the dream when they enter the sleep state.
"before use, the sleeper needs to strengthen the reminder of these stimuli first so that it can be realized that this is a dream when you feel the stimulation in your sleep." Zhu Zhongmin said that during the testing phase, the participants who slept in the experiment really responded to the function of the eye patch. "Some sleepers see rainbows in dreams, others see flashing lights, which is a perception of light stimulation. But unfortunately, they forgot in their sleep that it was a clue, so they did not take the initiative to control their dreams. Some testers memorized the message, accepted the stimulation and began to imagine that they were able to fly, so they experienced real flying feelings in their dreams.
perfect function ready to market
relative to the dream of "dream of success", Zhu Zhongmin is more concerned about the derivative function of Dream Swimmer. "The research we do is based on the detection of brain waves and heart rates of the sleeper, and using these two tests, we can make Dream Swimmer produce more functions, such as' flexible wake-up 'and' sleep improvement '."
"many people feel this way: they feel tired when they wake up in the morning. I hope that Dream Swimmer can detect the best wake-up time in a period of time and wakeup in a flexible way to minimize the feeling of discomfort when the sleeper wakes up. " Zhu Zhongmin said that as long as a person's customary sleep pattern is measured and stored in a private cloud, it can be detected by the sleep time, brain wave, heart rate and other data to determine which sleep is in the sleep stage, so as to choose the best wake-up time. At present, Dream Swimmer already has this function. The "sleep improvement" function, also based on the collection of sleep data, can make the sleepers shorten the "shallow sleep" phase as much as possible and accelerate into "deep sleep" by means of eye mask stimulation.
Zhu Zhongmin says their "sleep mask" is making the final circuit transformation, and Dream Swimmer is only one step away from the real product, and two or three months later, their team will push the eye mask to market. "We expect that the price will range from 300 yuan to 500 yuan, if users need to increase the data collection function of brain waves, at most not more than one thousand yuan." Zhu Zhongmin, 14, is also considering how to work with incubators next. "The office space we use now is freely provided by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications for entrepreneurs. If our product is officially on the market, the incubator may take 5% to 10% of the profits, so that we do not have to pay the rent.
this boy who wants to control his dreams is waiting for his dream to come true.