Chinese primary school stops using headbands to study pupils’ concentration levels after public outcry

Maker BrainCo defends use of devices on pupils in Zhejiang and insists they were not designed to monitor children’s brains. — SCMP

A company that developed a headband to monitor children’s attention spans has defended their use after a public outcry forced a primary school to stop using them.

Zhejiang BrainCo Technology, a company with offices in China and the US, said on Oct 31 that people had misinterpreted a report about the product that had appeared in The Wall Street Journal last week.