Tag Archives: BCI

MIT has just announced the establishment of a new research centre, the Lisa Yang Centre for Bionics,  focussing on the fusion of  human body and advanced technology aiming at overcoming disabilities. This includes use of exoskeletons and brain computer interfaces. The centre start with an initial funding of 24 M$ …

I remember when I was young (that was a long, long time ago), computers were perceived as electronic brains with a mixed feeling of expectation and fear. As a boy having to spend hours on books I dreamt of the possibility to download the knowledge from the books into my …

A team of researchers from Brown, Baylor University, University of California at San Diego and Qualcomm has been working in the past four years on a new approach to interface with the brain. So far BCIs make use of electrodes (implanted, or positioned inside/outside the skull) that can sense electrical …

We have had in the past decade several brain implants on patients but all of them have taken place under a strictly controlled experiment framework and thereafter removed. Now, for the first time an implant has received the green light from the FDA to be used in clinical trials paving …

Back in 2017 Facebook announced their vision for a consumer grade brain computer interface that would allow people to think and see their thought in print, at a rate of 100 words per minute (that is better than typing! An average person types between 30 and 40 words per minute, …

We have been used to high claims from Elon Musk, so high that seem impossible. Quite a bit of them, indeed, requires a reality check and need to be taken with much more than a grain of salt. However, we have also seen that, may be with some downgrading and …

A new technology, sono-optogenetics, is being experimented to support brain-computer interfaces -BCI. BCI aims at capturing the brain activity, convert it into bits and provide these bits to a computer for analysing what is going on, eventually what you are thinking.  Let’s clarify that we are still very – very …

Millions of people have lower-limb paralyses limiting their movement possibility and affecting the life of their families (in addition to limiting their possibility to find a job). The Toyota Mobility Foundation set up a 4 million $ challenge in 2017 to come up with effective devices that could overcome this …

Ericsson has published a short report (sort of commercial for 5G) on “Hot consumer trends in 2030“. Let me say, transparently, that I would place that more in the realm of imagination than in the one of science, closer to fake news than to news (even the graphics used have …

The quest towards Brain Computer Interfaces continues. At John Hopkins University researchers have implanted six electrodes in the brain, 3 in each hemisphere, of a paraplegic patient. The electrodes captures the electrical activity of the brain and send the data via an external gateway (see photo) to a computer for …