A model gets the final touches backstage
A model gets the final touches backstage before presenting a creation by designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada during the Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011 show, February 19, 2011. (SPAIN - Tags: FASHION) Reuters

Sensoree has designed a new headgear that changes colour depending on the thoughts and the state of mind of the wearer. The headgear, called NEUROTiQ, looks like a knitted hat that completely covers the head and extends to the shoulders.

According to the company's Web site, the headgear has many components with particular functions that help determine the mood of the wearer, causing the colour to change. It features an Emotiv EEG headset, which monitors neural activity at 14 points; the netted look is due to the knitted nylon mesh that covers the headset, within which the headset is embedded. Colour-changing LEDs are present within 14 "3D-printed globules" that change colour, depending on the brain activity of the wearer. The entire design took 130 hours to finish, excluding coding, according to the company's site.

Each colour represents a state of mind of the wearer. The company explained that when someone is in deep slumber, the headgear changes to a bright red colour. When the brain is totally aware or is in full consciousness, the globules turn yellow or green. A state of meditation is represented by orange, and multisensory is represented by three different colours: blue, purple and red. There can also be different hues on each light, since the brain engages in different activities.

CNet explained that the headgear was designed to help those with Sensory Processing Disorder. WebMD describes this as a condition in which the affected person's brain is unable to respond to or receive information sent by the senses. The headset was a part of Sensoree's work called "extimacy," which means externalized intimacy.

Sensoree founder and project's lead concept designer, Kristin Neidlinger, stated that that the headgear would communicate our feelings to others and ourselves as well, and so it could be a new form of communication. "These emotion-based designs promote body awareness, insight, spontaneity, and fun!" added Neidlinger.

NEUROTiQ is not available for sale. Sensoree, however, is taking orders for a limited edition of biometry-displaying Mood Sweaters. You can view the pictures of NEUROTiQ and watch the video here.