Japan's first on-brain interface being researched at Osaka University
I’m not sure I believe this is truly the first in brain-machine interfaces in Japan; after all, we’ve had them in the US for years (I even wrote a paper on them a few years ago). The idea is that an...
View ArticleTelekinetic monkeys and revolutionary prehensile prosthetics
http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319854 The brain-machine interface is one of the next major steps in technology. I had the privilege to study Neuroscience at UCLA and can...
View ArticleA little brain buzz might go a long way
Researchers at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders in Bethesda, MD are studying the effects of a charging the brain using a 9V battery to improve learning. The MIT Technology Review...
View ArticleNews from the future: Bionic lady undergoes nerve-remapping treatment
There’s really no way to describe this story without making it sound like it’s from the future. This lady, who has one of the world’s most advanced bionic arms after losing one in a motorcycle...
View ArticleBrain scan good enough for murder conviction
Damn, that’s harsh. A woman in India has been convicted of murder because her brain scans said so. If that sounds like a pretty shaky conviction to you, you’re not alone. BEOS begins with a silent...
View ArticleGuitarist hopes to rejoin band with help of cyber-hand
A guitarist for a British band, The Long Blondes, suffered a stroke some time ago and has been unable to use his right, or fretting hand since (he’s a lefty). However, the modern neuroscience has...
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Securing Our Minds: The Need For Brainwave Tech Standards Against Hacking
Editor’s note: Ariel Garten is the co-founder and CEO of InteraXon, a Toronto-based company that builds brainwave-enabled products and applications. In her work as a neuroscientist and entrepreneur,...
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Keen On… Ray Kurzweil: How Computers Will Reverse Engineer The Human Mind By...
A new Ray Kurzweil book is always a major event. And his latest work, How To Create A Mind: The Secret Of Human Thought Revealed, is classic Kurzweil – both infuriatingly brilliant and brilliantly...
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Kiko Labs Debuts A Series Of “Brain-Training” Games For Kids
A new company called Kiko Labs is today releasing a series of “brain-training” games for children. Think, perhaps: a Lumosity for the preschool-plus set. Like others claiming to promote cognitive...
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Storytelling In The Digital Media Age
I often get asked why a Harvard neuropsychiatrist spends so much time talking about emotions and the brain in front of media and marketing research experts. The answer is that we live in an...
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Brain Training App Peak Scores $7 Million Series A Round
Late last year I declared a penchant for so-called brain training games, which claim to be able to help you improve your cognitive ability, while also cleverly tapping into the casual mobile gaming...
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Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation
You know Kung Fu. Researchers at HRL Laboratories have discovered that when you use transcranial direct current stimulation to send the brain activity of commercial and military pilots into the heads...
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Rythm raises $11M to pursue sleep-improving neurotechnology
French startup Rythm, which makes a tech-infused headset it claims improves sleep quality, announced Tuesday that it’s raised over $11 million from private investors and public grants. Read More
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Don’t want your startup to fail? Arianna Huffington tells founders to go to bed
Sleep deprivation is the undoing of startup founders, according to Arianna Huffington. “There is this kind of founder myth that if you are a founder you can’t afford to get enough sleep,” she told me...
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High schooler’s 3D printed ‘mini-brain’ bioreactor accelerates Zika research
What are you planning on doing this summer? Probably not designing a revolutionary new bioreactor in which a thousand “mini-brains” can undergo testing. You’re probably not designing a bioreactor at...
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Halo is building a wearable to make athletes better, stronger, faster
Halo Neuroscience wants to build a new category of wearable. Not for passively tracking human activity, as so many existing wearables are, but for actively and positively influencing physical...
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Basis Peak watches recalled, service shutting down due to overheating
Basis Peak, a fitness watch tracking your health and sleep habits, is now being recalled by the company after reports of overheating. The Intel subsidiary first sent a statement about the overheating...
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Brain-computer interface lets a man with a spinal injury feel robotic fingers
“Index… ring… pinky… index… middle…” Nathan Copeland is telling a researcher which of his fingers he feels a touch on. But the researcher is touching a robotic hand, not Copeland’s, whose hand hasn’t...
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Bryan Johnson invests $100 million in Kernel to unlock the power of the human...
Earlier this year, former Braintree founder Bryan Johnson publicly announced his plans to forge Kernel, a company with the sole purpose of building hardware and software to augment human intelligence....
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A new brain health app from Neurotrack warns users of memory decline
A Redwood City, Calif. startup called Neurotrack Technologies Inc. has created a brain health app that is helping scientists unravel the mysteries of memory, and work to find a cure for Alzheimer’s....
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