Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months agoIs it because you are unfamiliar with adaptive tech? Eye tracking devices allowing quadriplegic people to interact with computers by looking at them and blinking have been around since at least the mid 00s. Like a decade ago the “mind reading” external tech got cheap enough for simplified toys to be made with it. Implanting it directly into the body is a lot of risk for very little benefit.
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I just think it’s cool, but fuck me right?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
If you think it’s cool I would hope you think it’s even cooler than you can do this without surgery and that there are literal cheap ass toys you can buy to play with yourself?
Soggy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re presupposing that surgical implants can’t be more responsive, intuitive, speedy, or sophisticated than an external device. The eye trackers are very useful but objectively pretty limited. Non-invasive EEG is weak and distorted because there is skull and more brain in the way, so “resolution” is limited.
If better outcomes are possible by putting electrodes as close to the signal source as can be, why not explore that option?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
It feels ridiculous that I even need to say this, but you don’t do it because the risk:benefit ratio is lopsided as hell.
Risks: die from sepsis, have your body reject the implant, the parent company goes out of business and your implant no longer functions (this has happened with several startups), etc
Benefit: move mouse and click faster
BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not the person you were responding too but I’d love to learn more about these toys/tech. Are there some key words that would help me search? I’m having some trouble sifting through the search results.
curiousPJ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
www.newegg.com/p/N82E16826100006
Neural Impulse Actuator or brain-computer interface.
ramirezmike@programming.dev 5 months ago
I think the most famous one was the star wars jedi force trainer? Some people say it’s fake but… it’s like a headset you put on that they claim reads your brain waves and it controls a little fan that switches on and off to make a ball in a tube float
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They’re usually marketed as “mind control” toys and are operated with a headset that sends a signal to hidden fans that control whatever object it is you’re supposed to be manipulating. Mattel came out with one called Mindflex that’s pretty complicated looking and has a matching price tag, there are some cheaper Star Wars branded ones too. Not sure what brand I tried as it was over a decade ago, but it was a two player game where you tried to move the ball towards the other player along a track.