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Interfacing with our senses, skipping the sensors In the previous post I shared my doubts on the feasibility of establishing a direct connection from a computer to the brain, at least in the foreseeable future and pointed out that a much more promising approach, already followed, is to take over …

  When you learn digital photography one of the first things you are told is ETTR: Expose To The Right! For those who may not know it, ETTR is the consequence of the way a digital image chip works. Those chips can be seen as containing million of “buckets”, one …

4. Reverse communications, from the computer to the brain If it is difficult to communicate from the brain to a computer the reverse is close to impossible. Now, I know you should “never say never” and indeed some progress has been made but before looking into technology promises let’s consider …

3. Decreasing the training time for the person and improving computer sensitivity (intelligence) As noted in previous posts, current technology is not sufficient to translate the brain electrical activity, captured by sensors, into meaning. Significant progress has been made, thanks to better signal processing capability and more recently by applying …

I remember the revolution in habits brought by music cassettes. For the first time users could duplicate a song. That started the disruption of the music industry that finally changed the market with the advent of digital music. It was a very first step and the music industry was not …

2. Extending the brain area where signals are captured Although we like to identify specific areas of the brain and associate them to specific function, like speech, hearing, reasoning, emotion, the brain structure is massively diffused. Yes there can be a prevalent area where a specific function is processed (emerge) …

Less invasive physical interface and better electrodes to pick up the signals The challenge facing researchers and medical doctors today when looking for interfacing the brain is the tradeoff between invasiveness procedures and implants versus lower resolution and increased noise. If you embed an electrode in the brain that electrode …

In May 2019 I posted a news on Gladius Mini, an underwater drone targeting the mass market at a price point around 1,400$ US, The same company is now pushing the envelope with a smaller model, Dory, they plan to offer at a 500$ price point hoping to hook a …

I have touched upon seeing, hearing and touching applied to human to whatever interface. There are three more, smell, taste and proprioceptors (these latter provide a sense of position and acceleration) but I’ll skip these for now since they are not used, nor are likely to be used in isolation …

Clearly there is much more than voice based interaction.  So let’s explore other technologies and their implication first by looking at voice (and typing that we have already considered) alternative technologies and then taking the plunge into multimodal interactions (that is our natural way of interacting as human being!). Let’s …