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

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

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

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 6

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

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

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

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (25) | comments 8

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 ...

Technology / Other

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Thought-propelled wheelchair developed in Italy

Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer, they said Friday.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

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

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5