Acompany backedby money from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is testing brain-controlled computing on humans.
told Lifewire in an email interview.
It is mind reading for the masses.
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The machine uses tiny sensors and goes on the vein next to the motor cortex.
An antenna pulls in brain data that it sends out of the body to external devices.
Other methods of measuring brain activity, such assingle-cell recordingorfMRI, are invasive.
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It is mind reading for the masses."
Putkis said that the main issue facing companies developing BCI involves the high interference levels in brain activity.
It is difficult to isolate single thoughts and translate them into actionable commands.
“Current BCI allows people to move a cursor or perform other simple actions,” Williams added.
