eBay and the Brain – level 2

20-10-2017 07:00

In London, eBay opened up the ‘Art of Shopping’. It is an experience for people to learn about how they buy things.

The place has two rooms with art, and people walk around to look at the art while wearing a headset. The headset measures brainwaves which relate to creativity and pleasure. At the end, people get personal shopping carts, which science put together.

eBay says that it is using neuroscience to show that inspired shopping helps people buy what they actually want and what will make them happier.

Difficult words: brainwave (electricity in the brain), neuroscience (science about the brain), inspire (make someone want to do something creative).

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