Tag Archives: brain-computer interface

Injured Rat Receives Brain Chip, Can Move Again

Meet Robo-Rat. In the latest advance in cyborg technology, scientists have replaced the dysfunctional part of a rat’s brain with [...]

Posted in Cyborg | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Electric Sheep: Stunning Visual Creatures Spawned By Thousands Of Computers While They Sleep

“Dr. Chandra, will I dream?” “I don’t know.” If Hal was somehow able to dream after Dr. Chandra shut it [...]

Posted in Art, Video Central | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in Computer Interfaces, Video Central | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Patients Control Computer Using Only Their Minds (video)

A temporary surgical implant enabled patients to “talk” to a computer. Just by thinking the words aloud in their head [...]

Posted in Computer Interfaces | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Posted in Computer Interfaces | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Controlling Your Mobile Phone…With Your Mind! (video)

Researchers in the Mobile Sensing Group at Dartmouth University have developed a cool new way for you to call a [...]

Posted in AI | Tagged , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in Computer Interfaces | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Monkey Controls Robot Arm With Brain Implant (Video)

If you want the epitome of cool cybernetics, it doesn’t get much better than a monkey waving around a robot [...]

Posted in AI, Cyborg, Robots | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Kevin Warwick, Once a Cyborg, Now Prophet of the Man-Machine Future

He has used his mind to control a robotic hand, he has sent his thoughts across the Atlantic and clenched [...]

Posted in Computer Interfaces, Singularity | Tagged , , , , | 8 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI, Cyborg, Singularity | Tagged , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 [...]

Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health | Tagged , , , , , | 10 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI | Tagged , , , , , | 14 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI | Tagged , , , , , , | 15 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Robots | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in AI, Cyborg, Robots | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments