Personal Infrastructure

The Neurosphere Institute is now exploring some concrete steps to build out the personal infrastructure – jacking in if you will.  Here’s a summary from the first baby step, which established an ongoing project and team.  Join us or learn more by sending a message.

Thirty people gathered for the first Rocky Mountain BrainHack on Saturday, November 10.  The event was marked by:

• Educational presentations on neuroscience, machine learning applied to neuroscience, and the new generation of brain-computer interface technologies.
• Hands-on time with the new generation of brain-computer interface devices.
• Extensive roundtable discussion of mental flow-states, including how to define them and identify associated brainwave patterns.
• Data gathering to fuel further research on the flow-state project
• Business and product roundtable focused on the assistive technology landscape.
• Successful testing of an initial proof-of-concept of using device output for mental commands to move a third-party device. This path has great potential to provide assistive technology solutions to the disabled community. See the video here!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321145121.htm

A new generation of brain scanner, that can be worn like a helmet allowing patients to move naturally whilst being scanned, has been developed. It is part of a five-year Wellcome funded project which has the potential to revolutionize the world of human brain imaging

A cyborg mid-life crisis.

“…development of a unique “’brain-implantable’ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for bi-directional brain-computer interfaces (BBCI) aimed at solving neurodegenerative disorders.”

Doesn’t hurt to have Elon Musk in the BCI space. But I think the AI element is more hype than we need just now – elementary motor function interfaces before tackling APIs for “intelligence”?

Implanted chip enables man to move arm with thoughts