Spiral brain-computer interface slips into ear canal with no loss of hearing
medicalxpress.com
A multi-institutional team of engineers in China has developed a new type of brain-computer interface (BCI) that can be easily slipped in and out of the ear canal. In their project, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group set out to design and build a new kind of BCI that is less invasive than existing devices.

research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.

  • Mechamoto@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Article title is misleading. This is just a fancy EEG that doesn’t need to be surgically implanted.

    It can only”turn thoughts into text” if the user /recipient spends weeks/months training to “think loudly” enough for their words to be detectable in their brainwaves and translated by a machine like this

    I think it’s really important for us to be careful of the misuse and abuse of BCIs, but the technology isn’t far enough yet for us to be worried about what you’ve described

    • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Ah fuck, I notice I fall back to reddit behavior of only reading titles. Thanks for clarifying (and for making me aware of my dangerous media usage).