Wireless brain signals
- ECL
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 29, 2021
In a breakthrough for people with paralysis, scientists at Brown University in the US have devised a system that can, for the first time, transmit brain signals to a computer wirelessly.
A clinical trial of BrainGate, a small transmitter that connects to the motor cortex of users' brains, allowed participants to control a tablet computer with similar typing speeds and accuracy as they achieved with wired systems, but without being tethered to their equipment.
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