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The Next Generation in Light & Sound Technology
Transforms your PC into the Ultimate Mind Machine


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 Futurists and 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!

Picture of Futuremind 1 Controller (JPG 35 KB)
Futuremind 1 PC-Peripheral Photic Stimulation Controller

Control Unit
Handheld, lightweight PC-peripheral 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 power supply adapter

Glasses
Lite frame sports sunglasses with dark tinted, mirrored plastic glasses
Comfortable fit through rubber nosepiece
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 maximum photic entrainment effects

PC-Interface
3m (10 ft.) long PC-interface cable with 25pin Sub-D adapter
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, when disconnected from the PC-interface
Optional two user operation with Y-adapter and extra glasses possible
9V DC power supply (Euro or US standard, or optionally 9V alkaline battery) is included with the device
Superb quality product of German engineering, each device is tested and covered by 12 months warranty, parts and labour

Software Screenshots
Futuremind Program View Screenshot (GIF 640x480, 20 KB)
Futuremind Ramp View Screenshot (GIF 640x480, 17 KB)
Futuremind Mixer Dialog Screenshot (GIF 640x480, 18 KB)
Sound Samples

Hardware Requirements
PC 486DX-33 MHz or better with VGA compatible display
MS DOS 5.0 or later (or 100% compatible, e.g. Windows 95)
Minimum 1 MB RAM, minimum 500 KB free Conventional Memory
Parallel (printer, LPT) port for interfacing Fururemind to the PC
SB Pro (OPL3, stereo) compatible soundcard, works with SB 16, SB 32, AWE 32, AWE 64, PAS 16, MS WSS and ESS Audiodrive 1x88 systems
Speakers or headphones (quality stereo headphones recommended)
Joystick optional for remote L/S playback and audio volume control
CD-ROM drive optional for use with synchronized audio CD playback

Software Scope
Professional development tool for creating advanced L/S programs
Interactive control center for realtime photosonic stimulation
Raises L/S technology to new levels of performance, functionality and flexibility by utilizing the PC's vast data storage and graphics display capabilities plus it's superior processing power and audio features
Transforms your PC into the ultimate, state-of-the-art mind machine

Software Features
Easy installation and setup including soundcard autodetection
Configurable options and settings are preserved in an INI-file
Intuitive graphical user interface featuring windows, menus, dialog boxes, scrollbars, buttonbar, online-help, hotkeys
Comfortably Load, Save, Create, Edit, Test and Playback L/S programs
Graphical display of the L/S parameters (single ramp or whole program)
L/S Editors provide Clipboard Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Undo functions
Optional command line interface to automatically load and playback L/S programs
Playback can start at any ramp beginning, Pause and Resume functions
Joystick button control for remote L/S program Start/Stop, Pause/Resume functions and to adjust Main Volume Up/Down
L/S programs are conveniently stored in the compact .LSD format
L/S programs can store long title, author info and descriptive comments
Includes comprehensive, readily printable on-line documentation
Comes with 15 breathtaking, mind-boggling, professional L/S programs (see program descriptions, library will be upgraded to 25 sessions)

L/S Programming Specs
Virtually no limits to the number, lenght and complexity of L/S programs
Upto 255 ramps per program, ramp duration from 1 second to 1 hour, program duration upto 24 hours, scalable to any lenght in minutes
Configurable Timer Resolution (1 - 8 KHz), Countdown Timer (0 - 255 sec)
High precision pulse rate (frequency: 0.10 - 40.00 Hz), pulse width (duty cycle: 0 - 100 %) pitch frequency (32.0 - 4096.0 Hz), voice volume (0 - 99 %) control, independently programmable and smoothly, simultaneously rampable for 2 light channels and 8 sound voices
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 light channels
Sound voices can generate pulsed or continous tones in any combination, enabling advanced stimulation patterns, e.g. quadruple binaural beats
General MIDI compatible FM instrument patchbank with 130 waveforms, use realistic sounding instruments with powerful harmonics
Soundcard mixer programming for Main, FM Synth, CD audio, Line In and Microphone volume levels
Soundcard special effects support for Loudness, 3D Stereo Enhance, Reverb and Chorus
Can combine binaural beats with audio CD playback thru PC CD-ROM drive, plus with any external audio signal (e.g. tape or CD player with psycho-acoustic music) by connecting the audio source to the Line In jack of the soundcard