Got wind of this off of Engadget – uses Max/MSP to process the
signals apparently:

http://www.takehitoetani.com/hbbb.html

Check out the video that shows a demo of the software – now if they
only *sync’d* the beat of the music to the heartbeat also, instead of
just tailoring the BPM of the song to the heartbeat… THAT would be
cool!

Dan
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Dan Nigrin
Defective Records
202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X
http://www.defectiverecords.com
http://www.jackosx.com

I’ve been working on embedding the HSQL database inside a library for  
MXJ. HSQLDB is 100% Java, and in its default mode is 100% plain file  
based, so it’s pretty easy to wrap up and link in to Max’s search  
path machinery. The result is a full SQL database with basically no  
installation or configuration needed, and easy access to the data files.

It also seems to be robust. A couple of months ago I wrote an OSC  
sequencer object, using SQL to timestamp and store all the data  
(coming from some wearable computer gear which was putting out  
messages at 10msec intervals). Load and cue time were not  
inconsiderable on my TiBook, but it all held together. Worked fine on  
Windows too (and the data files are portable).

The only actual MXJ object I have to release at the moment is  
something which takes in full SQL statements and puts out result rows  
as lists of Atoms; at some stage soon I want to rewrite the  
cassiel.registry object to be SQL-based, and also put out some  
example objects which do proper PreparedStatement JDBC (like the OSC  
sequencer, although that’s a bit too complicated to serve as an  
example).

Oh, and all this code should work, unmodified, on any forthcoming Max/
MSP running natively on an Intel Mac.

Info/download at:  http://www.loadbang.net/space/Software/
net.loadbang-SQL

If there are any holes in the software or the documentation, please  
let me know. I’ve not zipped up the sources yet – will do so when I  
have a spare moment. Also, if you do use it and want to be kept  
informed of updates, drop me a line.

I’m also keen to put together some more examples of utilities and  
applications. Anyone got any ideas?

— N.

   nick rothwell — composition, systems, performance — http://
www.cassiel.com

For those interested, there’s a new release of IRIN.
Check it out at http://www.carloscaires.com

Best,
Carlos