The Haley

This site introduces my invention idea, which I call "Haley". Haley may be a cellphone app or a pc app or both. It might operate with or without a website. The Haley is an elestic neck band with a microphone unit sewn in. It hears you breathe and software syncs and superimposes that sound with a selected track such as a binaural holophonic sound track, "ocean waves" etc. The effect will be a biofeedback loop experience of hearing your own breathing, but in the form of some other sound selection. Any headphones can plug into any phone or computer for use with the Haley. The microphone unit rests against the throat and sends sound data to the device the same way a cellular ear module transmits. It could send to a cellphone or a usb receiver plugged into your computer. There could be the option to play it on external speakers, some might find it helps them sleep. Also the user may enjoy video graphic visualizations which can also be synchronized and paralellized with the breathing sound data.

email Ron Reynolds - ron@bumpker.com

A virtual smoking app can show a glowing cigarette during inhale and smoke flowing out during exhale.

This and other ideas would be enhanced if we had display eyeglasses .

The sound tracks can be randomized (maybe changing with each breath) There could be a stay button to keep a particular track playing and a change button to resume changing. Play lists and sequences (audio and visual) might be composed by the user. There can be a library of visualisations with stay and change buttons working the same way. The "vizzies" can be very creative: Falling snow flakes, ocean waves seamingly disturbed by the breathing. Leaves grow old during exhale and turn green during inhale. A flute app with keys or tochscreen buttons for playing different notes.

If you compose sequences, perhaps the web site has it that you can upload them. A "most popular sequences" list can develop. It could grow into a kind of D.J. field of it's own. The site might work similar to YouTube, or be a feature of YouTube . The neckband might work well for the vocal impaired community to project speech. The phone or other unit might be set by a vocal impaired person to project a very nice sounding voice of her/his choosing.

It's interesting to imagine breathing to scroll through large numbers of images.

SECURITY

The Haley could some day develop into a distress calling device. With the microphone against the throat, signs of distress can be automatically transmitted to a service: a kind of "On Star" for person. It could feature an alarm signal app. You just speak a preset code word (very quietly, if need be) and the distress alarm is issued to the service. There could even be a security protocol for removing the neck band, so it can't be just taken away. A password plus a fake password - fake password to signal an alert. You just say the word before you remove Haley. Speaking neither word triggers an alert. Haley can become a listening "bug" when alerted. Transmitting a criminals voice. Of course it grows into an awesome deterrent. They see the neckband and they don't mess with you. Might some who don't want one still wear a fake one for that reason?

And there my be much potentioal for e-signature, password and identity security. A cellphone or pc could display a random number when you say a command through the neckband. A database can link that number to your identity for 30 seconds or so. Then you speak the number in long form, like: "two hundred thirty one thousand three hundred fifty two." You are verified by speaking the right number with the right voice. If a particular neckband is made to work only with one specific voice - the owners, and to not function at all if it's on someone else's neck...(so that a recording of the owners voice can't possibly work which is also the reason for the 30 second window and if the database is in a satelite... We could get to a setup where it is of no consequence that some feind has all your personl info. They can't use the info if they can't "Haley" the info.

You could watch sports, or other, and the action could freeze when you hold your breath.

You could set your personal Computer to only accept a "haleyed" password.

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