Comments on: Braingate Frees Trapped Minds

By: Brain Controlled Robot Follows Mental Commands (Video) | Singularity Hub

Brain Controlled Robot Follows Mental Commands (Video) | Singularity Hub — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:22:18 +0000

[...] into brain-control had users make direct commands (lift left arm, stick out tongue, etc), and Braingate directly measures motor neurons, Rao’s team takes a broader approach to mind-control. Surface [...]

By: Audeo Lets You Talk or Control Wheelchair With Your Thoughts (Video) | Singularity Hub

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:05:42 +0000

[...] sort of “nerve reading” technology isn’t unique. We’ve seen Braingate use motor neuron signals in the brain to move a wheelchair and computer cursor. Cyberdyne uses [...]

By: Is Surrogates Movie Getting Closer to Reality? | Singularity Hub

Is Surrogates Movie Getting Closer to Reality? | Singularity Hub — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:56:55 +0000

[...] Surrogates? Singularity Hub has already told you about haptics, feeling what your robot feels, and Braingate, the technology of reading your mind in order to control computers and machines. This stuff is here [...]

By: BCI2000 Lets Your Mind Control Computers | Singularity Hub

BCI2000 Lets Your Mind Control Computers | Singularity Hub — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:28:26 +0000

[...] this to the Braingate interface we’ve discussed before, which directly reads motor neuron signals, and is intuitive [...]

By: Braingate2: Your Mind Just Went Wireless | Singularity Hub

Braingate2: Your Mind Just Went Wireless | Singularity Hub — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:54:48 +0000

[...] possibility just got a little stronger. A few weeks ago, Singularity Hub highlighted some of the many accomplishments of Braingate, the neural interface hardware and software that allows you to control a computer mouse with your [...]

By: Cool New Stuff in May

Cool New Stuff in May — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:30:39 +0000

[...] Telepathy: * “Force Trainer” toy provides MRI for kids. * Implant wires motor cortex to computer. [...]

By: BCI Review » Blog Archive » Braingate Frees Trapped Minds - Singularity Hub

Thu, 21 May 2009 18:41:18 +0000

[...] “It is a horrifying concept: being buried alive. Even more terrible is the prospect of living trapped in our own bodies, unable to move or communicate. It’s called locked-in syndrome. Characters like Captain Pike and Jean-Dominique Bauby, (one fictional, the other not) describe the fear and frustration of living with a healthy mind in a broken body. But there is a real-life hope. As its name suggests, Cyberkinetics’ Braingate Neural Interface device allows patients to open the door between their mind and the outside world. Utilizing years of research studying brain signals, Braingate can read impulses in the brain using tiny implanted wires and translate those impulses into commands for computer cursors, wheelchairs, and perhaps even robotic limbs.” [source] [...]

By: Truth

Truth — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:09:41 +0000

LOL, Nick. Exactly what I thought. It’s so funny because it’s actually true.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:08:26 +0000

Arming scientists? Someone’s been playing too much half-life. =)

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:55:46 +0000

Let’s wire up Stephen Hawking. Get him a Japanese exoskeleton, some missiles and laser weapons. Then get him that brain/tweet interface and he can twitter about his scientific rampages.