There’s Neuralink—and There’s the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It

Mark Jackson is playing a computer game with his mind. As he reclines in bed, three blue circles appear on a laptop screen a few feet away. One turns red: the target. Jackson is in control of a white circle, which he needs to steer into the target without running into the blue obstacles. The game is a bit like Pac-Man. Except instead of a joystick, Jackson uses his thoughts to control his little white circle. To move left, he thinks about clenching his right fist once. To move right, he thinks about doing it twice in a row, like a double click.

Jackson, who is 65 and paralyzed, is

→ Continue reading at Wired - Science

More from author

Related posts

Advertisment

Latest posts

Will AI really decimate human jobs? Tech industry insiders are split | CNN Business

New York CNN  —  People have worried that computers will take their jobs for basically as long as they’ve...

The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life

After my birth, my mother became allergic to the world. That’s the only way I knew how to put it. So many things could...