Driving a car with your own brain

Our technology is coming to the Deutsches Museum Nuremberg – the museum of the future. Drive a car with your own brain.

Tomorrow, September 18, 2021, the new branch of the Deutsches Museum opens its doors in Nuremberg. With its focus on the present and future of technology and science in five different thematic areas, it's not without reason that it bears the title "The Museum of the Future." Our Carrera track is a must. Here, you can control a car with your brain!

The brothers and founders Philipp and Tobias Heiler

Since 2016, the two brothers and founders of brainboost , Philipp and Tobias Heiler, have been touring Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with our Carrera track. In doing so, they are raising awareness of mental fitness and health in a corporate context. But how does it all work, and what makes the otherwise nostalgic Carrera track so promising for the future?

The answer is very simple :

In the case of brainboost, the car is not controlled with a controller via the hands as usual, but via the participant's own brain. With the help of an EEG, the brain activity of the participant is measured and transferred to the Carrera track. Depending on the technical settings, the whole thing is programmed so that the car always drives when its driver is, for example, particularly focused or in a relaxed state. The idea is to illustrate unconscious processes in the brain in a playful way and to develop individual exercises. This gives the participants, for example on a health day at the company, the opportunity to find out how their brain works in certain situations and which tricks they can use to support it.

What it feels like to control a car with your brain and to find out under which conditions your own brain works best – this and much more can be discovered from September 18, 2021, in the Body and Mind section of the Deutsches Museum Nuremberg.

You can find more information on the Deutsches Museum website .