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This sounds straight like future-future-tech. My Fitbit can't even measure my heartbeat or steps with sufficient precision and they want to measure electric sig
by martin_a 7y ago
This sounds straight like future-future-tech. My Fitbit can't even measure my heartbeat or steps with sufficient precision and they want to measure electric signals from neurons? Sounds (yet) impossible.
- qnsi 7y agoThey had demos online. Unless they faked those
- mncolinlee 7y agoIt's not even that new. A professor was using a much earlier version of this same tech to steer his boat in the 90's. It was very easy to read left and right signals to control a rudder as a prototype. There have been commercialized versions of this tech already. The Myo was Kickstarted in 2015 and then acquired by CTRL-Labs. I have one and that generation of the tech was still tricky to use effectively. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/312488939/myowaretm-harness-the-power-of-your-muscle-signals https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/312488939/myowaretm-har... Here's a pretty decent paper on the quite long history of Brain-Machine Interfaces: https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00027.2016?view=long&pmid=28275048& https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00027.20...