Tag Archives: bci

Brain Scanner Being Used To Give Stephen Hawking A New Voice

World renowned scientist Stephen Hawking has given so much to the world of physics. Now he’s doing what he can [...]

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Scientists Use Brain Waves To Eavesdrop On What We Hear

The day we can scan a person’s brain and “hear” their inner dialogue just got closer. Scientists at the University [...]

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Technological Telepathy? Scientists Scan Your Brain To Watch The Movies Playing In Your Mind

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley can now read your mind and project the images you think of onto [...]

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Researchers Develop Neural Prosthesis That Improves Memory in Rats

Recent advances in neural prosthetics have allowed people to control a computer cursor using only their thoughts, and allowed one [...]

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Thought-Wired Allows Disabled to Control Home Appliances with Mind Alone

If you’re one of the millions affected by severe disabilities, you should pay close attention to three innovative, pure-hearted Aucklanders [...]

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XWave iPhone Accessory Channels Your Brain Waves into iPhone

Do your friends complain that you can’t pull your eyes away from your iPhone? Well, if you get the new [...]

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Great Video of Wheelchair Controlled By Human Thought with AI Guidance

You know telekinesis, right – moving objects with your thoughts? Let’s talk techno-kinesis – moving machines with your thoughts. There’s [...]

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App Lets You Make a Phone Call With Your Mind (Video)

And you thought having a touch screen was cool. ThinkContacts is a new smart phone app under development that uses [...]

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Tan Le Demos Headset That Reads Brainwaves (video)

Tan Le isn’t just interested in reading your mind, she wants to have fun while doing it. Le is one [...]

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Is The Movie ‘Inception’ Getting Closer to Reality? (video)

In the upcoming movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a criminal with the technology to project himself into the dreams of [...]

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Electric Mind – Sweet Trailer Showcases Tech Uniting Mind and Machine

Ever wondered if the Matrix could really exist? If Nadav Harel’s latest documentary is any indication, he’s been asking himself [...]

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Hilarious Hacked Device Electrocutes You for Thinking (Video)

In further proof that idle engineers are the most evil demographic in the world, I present to you the “Most [...]

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Intendix, The Brain Computer Interface Goes Commercial (video)

The world’s first patient-ready and commercially available brain computer interface just arrived at CeBIT 2010. The Intendix from Guger Technologies [...]

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Kurzweil Discusses the Future of Brain Computer Interfaces (Video)

Offering money as a prize for scientific endeavors has a long history of success. That’s how we got a clock [...]

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Igniting a Brain-Computer Interface Revolution – BCI X PRIZE

This is a guest post written by entrepreneur, Singularity University alumnus and teaching fellow Rod Furlan. He is an independent [...]

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Wireless Device Reads Brain Signals, Turns them into Speech (Video)

Remarkable news keeps coming for those who are trapped in their own bodies. People with locked-in syndrome, a condition where [...]

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Advancements in Brain Control: Wheelchairs that Move by Thought

The seventies gave the world “soul power” and now the new millennium is moving on to brain-power. There has been [...]

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The Emotiv Headset – Gaming With Thoughts Alone

Mind control is coming to a home near you. Well, it’s not going to let you lull your neighbors into [...]

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Posting Tweets with Brain Power

Tired of using thumbs to endlessly update Twitter on a cell phone?  Well, worry no longer about finger injuries from [...]

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The Real Scoop on Honda’s Brain Controlled Asimo Robot

Many of our readers may have seen the announcement yesterday that Honda has enabled its famous Asimo robot to be [...]

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Bionic Arm Controlled By Patient’s Own Thoughts

Last year we reported about the latest efforts to create the next generation in prosthetic arms.  Without a doubt the [...]

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Researchers Develop “Brain-Controlled” Wheelchair Robotic Arm

Researchers at USF have created a wheelchair with a robotic arm that is operated by capturing the user’s brain waves [...]

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Monkey’s Thoughts Control Robot Halfway Across the World

The New York Times today reports on an awesome experiment in which thoughts were extracted from a monkey in the [...]

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The Rise of the Cyborgs

Discover Magazine has just blown me away with a fascinating story on the current state of brain-computer interfaces (BCI).  The [...]

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