Matt Blair Reached Via a Mind-Reading Device, Deeply Paralyzed Patients Say They Want to LiveMIT Technology Review - Emily Mullin A brain-computer interface records “yes” and “no” answers in patients who lack any voluntary muscle movement. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a …
Matt Blair Legally Blind 5th Grader Sees Mother for 1st Time Through Electronic GlassesABC News - AVIANNE TAN Fifth grader Christopher Ward, Jr., has been legally blind all his life, but he recently got to see his mother for the first time through new …
Matt Blair Video Shows Paralyzed Man Move Hand with Brain ImplantMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado Researchers used a brain-computer interface to give a man control over his paralyzed hand. The promotional video above made by Battelle and the Ohio …
Matt Blair Paralyzed man walks unassisted using only brain control — no exoskeleton requiredDigital Trends - Kelly Hodgkins A 26-year-old man who has been paralyzed for five years was able to walk on his own again. How? By using his brain waves to directly control the …
Matt BlairNeurophilosophy Technology inject electronics into brainBusiness Insider - Guia Marie Del PradoLast May, a 34-year-old paralyzed man was able to drink from a cup unaided using a robotic arm. Other surgeries have allowed the deaf to hear, the blind to see, and have staved off the debilitating symptoms
Matt Blair Lighting the BrainThe New Yorker - John ColapintoOn a recent Friday morning, a gray-haired woman whom I will call Sally arrived for an appointment with Karl Deisseroth, a psychiatrist and a neuroscientist in the bioengineering department at Stanford
Matt Blair It's easy to make your brain think it's in someone else's bodyCNET - by Michael Franco By messing with the brain's sense of location, a team of researchers in Sweden figure out how make people believe they're wearing each other's bodies.
Matt BlairMind Control These Robotic Flowers With Your MindFast Company - Sophie WeinerSelf-proclaimed “robot fan” Ashley Newton has invented a set of gorgeous robotic flowers that you control with your mind. Newton created the flowers, which look a bit like bioluminescent deep-sea creatures,
Matt Blair Scientists Implant False Memories Into Sleeping Miceiflscience.com - Elise Andrew Even the best brains have imperfect memories. We often forget things, and many people even sometimes remember things that did not happen, which are …
Matt BlairDARPA A paralyzed woman flew an F-35 fighter jet in a simulator — using only her mindThe Washington PostIt's just the latest advance for one woman, 55-year-old Jan Scheuermann, who has been the subject of two years of groundbreaking neurosignaling research. First, Scheuermann began by controlling a robotic
Matt BlairBioengineering Man with bionic eye sees his wife for first time in a decadeThe Telegraph - By Telegraph Men, video source YouTube / Mayo ClinicA blind patient in Minnesota has been given an implant which has allowed to him to see his wife for the first time in ten years A blind man from Minnesota has been able to see his wife for the first time
Matt BlairThe Brain Building a Better Bionic Arm by Teaching the Brain a New Signalkqed.org - Daniel Potter Building a Better Bionic Arm by Teaching the Brain a New Signal The human body has a built-in sense for where its various parts are in space, explains …
Matt BlairScientific Research Flexible spinal cord implants will let paralyzed people walkEngadget - Jon FingasDoctors dream of helping the paralzyed walk through implants that stimulate their spinal cords, but current technology makes that impossible; these stiff, unnatural gadgets usually end up damaging or nervous
Matt Blair Double amputee controls bionic arms with his mindMashable - Lance UlanoffProsthetic technology has made huge leaps in recent years, but the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is pushing it into Six Million Dollar Man territory. Scientists recently equipped
Matt Blair Monkeys Steer Wheelchairs With Their Brains, Raising Hope for Paralyzed PeopleNational Geographic - Dan VerganoNew technologies offer a window into how the brain creates movement. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Experimental wheelchairs and exoskeletons controlled by thought alone offer surprising insights into the brain, neuroscientists
Matt Blair From Brain To Computer: Helping 'Locked-In' Patient Get His Thoughts OutNPR - NPR StaffIn 2009, a man named Barry Beck suffered a series of strokes, which caused extensive damage to his right occipital lobe and to the brain stem. The geologist and author of several books was left completely
