brain-computer interface
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Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs
On Friday, Elon Musk demonstrated the tech behind his brain-computer interface startup, Neuralink, in a livestreamed demo that involved significantly more pigs than anyone expected.
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This Brain Scanner Is Way Smaller Than FMRI But Somehow 1000% Creepier
It may look like something befitting Halloween‘s Michael Myers, but the device pictured above is actually a breakthrough in neuroscience – a portable, wearable brain scanner that can monitor neural activity while a person is moving.
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DARPA Is Funding Brain-Computer Interfaces To Treat Blindness, Paralysis And Speech Disorders
These days, it seems you’re nobody if you’re not working on a way to merge machines with the human brain. Earlier this year, both Facebook and perpetual moonshot-enthusiast Elon Musk announced plans for brain-computer interfaces that could allow us to read the thoughts of others and improve our capacity for learning. Today, the US Defence…
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Monkeys Text At 12 Words A Minute Using Only Their Thoughts
Using a brain implant, Stanford researchers have developed a mind-machine interface that allows monkeys to text at the very reasonable rate of 12 words per minute. Eventually, the system could be used to help people with movement disorders to communicate more efficiently.