Toronto's Interaxon lands first VC deal for thought-controlled IT gear

Source: ITBusiness.ca

The funding will help the company bring its mind-blowing brain wave powered headset to consumers early next year. 5/23/2012 3:33:00 PM Interaxon CEO Ariel Garten, seen here using brain-computer interface during a 2007 musical coll ...
Full article at: ITBusiness.ca  More like this  3 days ago, 3:39pm CDT

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Thought-Control Gives Paralyzed People Helping Hand

Source: National Institutes of Health

Paralyzed patients were able to reach and grasp objects by controlling a robotic arm with their thoughts, a new study reports. This advance may help restore some independence and improve quality of life for people who' ...
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Thought Control: Paralyzed Woman Sips Coffee with Brain-Computer Interface and Robotic Arm

Source: Big Think

It blew my mind back in 2003 when I read that Dr. Miguel Nicolelis at the Duke Center for Neuroengineering had enabled monkeys to control a robot arm with their thoughts. In exchange for sips of juice, monkeys initiall ...
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Using Brain Computer Interface People With Paralysis Control Robotic Arms To Reach And Grasp

Source: Medindia Health News

On his fourth day of interacting with the arm T2 performed the session in this study, whereas the prior three sessions were focused on system development. He later described his control of the arm, using his eyes t ...
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Next Valley View: Cloud, Baseball IT, And More

Source: TechWeb

InformationWeek is hosting another episode of its live Web TV series, Valley View, on Wednesday, May 23 at 4 pm PT. We'll feature a little bit of enterprise mobile, a little bit of enterprise social, a little bit of cloud management, and som ...
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