Consumer tech has spent the last decade turning the body into a stream of metrics. Heart rate, sleep stages, blood oxygen, recovery, stress, and readiness have all been packaged into dashboards that deliver a clearer picture of your “health”. Now the next frontier may be a little more intimate by moving up to the brain—not literally, thankfully. Neurable , a Boston company building noninvasive brain-computer interface tech, is moving to a licensing model, which means its EEG-based system could soon show up in a much wider range of consumer gadgets beyond the company’s own headphones. Other brands may be able to build the tech into familiar products such as gaming headsets, smart glasses, hats, helmets, and other hearables. One of the first products expected to feature it is a gaming headset developed in collaboration with HyperX . The technology isn’t as sci-fi as it sounds When most people hear “brain tech,” they probably think of Neuralink -style implants or some dramatic form of mind reading.…