News tagged with brain computer interfacing
BrainGate neural interface system reaches 1,000-day performance milestone
Demonstrating an important milestone for the longevity and utility of implanted brain-computer interfaces, a woman with tetraplegia using the investigational BrainGate system continued to control a computer cursor accurately ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Put your thinking cap on and type with your mind (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Guger Technologies, an Austrian-based company, has developed a computer interface that can work directly with the human brain. The interface allows a user to "type" short messages by staring ...
EECoG may finally allow enduring control of a prosthetic or a paralyzed arm by thought alone
Daniel Moran has dedicated his career to developing the best brain-computer interface, or BCI, he possibly can. His motivation is simple but compelling. "My sophomore year in high school," Moran says, "a good friend and I ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Taking brain-computer interfaces to the next phase (w/ Video)
You may have heard of virtual keyboards controlled by thought, brain-powered wheelchairs, and neuro-prosthetic limbs. But powering these machines can be downright tiring, a fact that prevents the technology ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Grant to fund 'pioneering' brain-computer interface technology
Efforts to advance technology to aid people who have lost communication and movement abilities are getting support from an Arizona Biomedical Research Commission grant for a project combining resources and expertise at Arizona ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Mind-reading computers turn heads at high-tech fair
Devices allowing people to write letters or play pinball using just the power of their brains have become a major draw at the world's biggest high-tech fair.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Brain-controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research. Now a rare peek at a human brain hooked up to a computer shows that the two ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone (w/ Video)
New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought alone.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Using your mood to operate a computer game
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by ...
May 28, 2009 |
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Researchers use brain interface to post to Twitter (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter -- just by thinking about it.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Thought-propelled wheelchair developed in Italy
Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer, they said Friday.
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Scientists read minds with infrared scan
Researchers at Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference - with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 10, 2009 |
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