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Using your mood to operate a computer game

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by ...

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Man with spinal cord injury uses brain computer interface to move prosthetic arm with his thoughts

(Medical Xpress) -- Seven years after a motorcycle accident damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed, 30-year-old Tim Hemmes reached up to touch hands with his girlfriend in a painstaking and tender high-five.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Paralyzed man uses mind-powered robot arm to touch

Giving a high-five. Rubbing his girlfriend's hand. Such ordinary acts - but a milestone for a paralyzed man.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Car makers testing driver wake-up from sensors in headrest

(PhysOrg.com) -- Car manufacturers are looking at a technology that sets off an alarm for drivers if they are falling asleep at the wheel. Sensors embedded in the driver’s headrest would read the brain’s electrical ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Control the cursor with power of thought

The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

EECoG may finally allow enduring control of a prosthetic or a paralyzed arm by thought alone

Daniel Moran has dedicated his career to developing the best brain-computer interface, or BCI, he possibly can. His motivation is simple but compelling. "My sophomore year in high school," Moran says, "a good friend and I ...

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created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taking brain-computer interfaces to the next phase (w/ Video)

You may have heard of virtual keyboards controlled by thought, brain-powered wheelchairs, and neuro-prosthetic limbs. But powering these machines can be downright tiring, a fact that prevents the technology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mind-moved bionic arm goes on display in US

A bionic prosthetic arm that is controlled by its operator's thoughts and feels like the amputee's lost limb went on display Thursday at a major US science conference.

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created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2

XWave for iPhone lets you read your own mind

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new application for the iPhone, the XWave, lets you read your own mind via a headset clamped to your head and connected to the phone’s audio jack.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 33 | with audio podcast report

Human brain to help computers analyze images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) are most often designed to help people (such as those with disabilities) do things they find difficult on their own, but a joint project by Columbia University ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

From touchpad to thought-pad? Research shows that digital images can be manipulated with the mind

Move over, touchpad screens: New research funded in part by the National Institutes of Health shows that it is possible to manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only the mind.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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