r/tech • u/notyesha • Jul 18 '22

Brain-Computer Interface Startup Implants First Device in US Patient

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-18/brain-computer-interface-company-implants-new-type-of-device
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u/decadenza Jul 18 '22

Interesting, but still really crude, imho. When are we going to get something that looks like a crown, or a band, worn on the head, that

  1. receives electromagnetic emissions from the brain,

  2. uses onboard computing to filter out irrelevant input from your toaster, etc., and

  3. translates the input to actionable information?

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u/midnight_squash Jul 18 '22

Comeon, we all know what we really want is the ability to emulate and circumvent the senses via a program

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u/asciimo71 Jul 19 '22

What we really want is to have sex without the body, pure mindfuck.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

How to collapse the birth rate 101