December 13, 2004

Moving a cursor with only your brain

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A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer.

Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.

What is really cool here is the fact that this this isn’t using implanted electrodes, but a cap fitting over the skull. Complex algorithms translate the brains electrical activity into instructions to direct the computer.

via BBC via Occam’s Razor

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