This is Angel Perez Garcia. He can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.

Electronics - Robotics

May 06, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 2

Every year thousands of people in Europe are paralysed by a spinal cord injury. Many are young adults, facing the rest of their lives confined to a wheelchair. Although no medical cure currently exists, in ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Mar 08, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Imec, Holst Centre and Panasonic have developed a new prototype of a wireless EEG (electroencephalogram) headset. The system combines ease-of-use with ultra-low power electronics. Continuous impedance monitoring ...

Technology - Engineering

Oct 05, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1

(Phys.org)—Spinal cord injury victims may be able to look forward to life beyond a wheelchair via a robotic leg prosthesis controlled by brain waves. Individuals with paraplegia due to spinal cord injury ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Sep 04, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Usenix Security conference earlier this month demonstrated a way to get into your brain and learn facts that you don’t want to reveal. Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Aug 22, 2012 5 / 5 (8) 5 |

(Phys.org) -- Veritas Scientific is working on an EEG helmet that carries a slideshow of images that could, they hope, reliably identify an enemy. The device is shaped like a motorcycle-helmet with metal brush ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Jul 12, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 2 |

Today at the VLSI circuits symposium (June 12-15, Honolulu), Imec presents a complete 700µW 8-channel active-electrode (AE)-based EEG monitoring system. The system, developed in collaboration with Panasonic, ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Jun 15, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) -- A research team made up of members from Indiana University, Tufts and MIT and led by Erin Treacy Solovey, a has built a brain monitoring system that offloads some of the computer related activities ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

May 16, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

We all know the feeling, the short, sharp shock of waking to the sound of an alarm clock. Whether the traditional clattering metal bells, the incessant beeping of digital or the dulcet tones of today's radio news reader. ...

Technology - Engineering

Oct 20, 2011 4.3 / 5 (4) 4 |

German researchers have used drivers' brain signals, for the first time, to assist in braking, providing much quicker reaction times and a potential solution to the thousands of car accidents that are caused by human error.

Technology - Engineering

Jul 29, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 4 |

Electroencephalography (EEG) records the electrical signals produced by the brain using an array of electrodes placed on the scalp. Computers use an algorithm called common spatial pattern (CSP) to translate ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

May 30, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 1 |

A team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students has created a system that pairs an EEG headset with a 3-D theatrical flying harness, allowing users to “fly” by controlling their thoughts. The “Infinity ...

Technology - Other

May 03, 2011 not rated yet 0

The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Mar 27, 2011 4.6 / 5 (7) 1 |

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that cardiac pacing may help epilepsy patients with seizure-related falls due to ictal asystole, an unusual condition in which the heart stops beating during an epileptic seizure. The study ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 23, 2011 not rated yet 0

Researchers at Concordia University have pioneered a computer-based method to detect epileptic seizures as they occur – a new technique that may open a window on the brain's electrical activity. Their paper, "A Novel ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Mar 23, 2011 not rated yet 0