Posts Tagged ‘bci’

ALS Entrepreneur

“I will never leave a fallen comrade.” They tell me that’s the most important line in the soldier’s creed. I live by it. I am one of the lucky ones. I have ALS, and have been “locked-in” for three years. For nine months, I had no way to communicate with the world. Couldn’t talk. Or
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ALS entrepreneur frees others

(This is a piece of fiction I hope becomes true very soon.) “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” They tell me that’s the most important line in the soldier’s creed. I live by it. I am one of the lucky ones. I have ALS, and have been “locked-in” for three years. For nine months,
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What can you do with a BCI?

by Brendan Allison, Ph.D., and Bruce Kasanoff In a segment broadcast on November 2, 2008, CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley put on a cap embedded with small white disks. He was about to use his brain in a brand new way. Staring at a screen on which the letters of the alphabet popped up
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