Category: Media

Brain chip allows paralysed man to post first ever ‘direct-thought’ tweet

‘Astonishing’ system takes practice, says ALS sufferer, ‘but once you’re rolling, it becomes natural’ The IndependentBy Anthony CuthbertsonDecember 27, 2021 A paralysed man has made the first “direct-thought tweet” after having a computer chip implanted in his brain. Philip O-Keefe, a 62-year-old Australian who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), composed and posted the tweet […]

The Man Who Controls Computers With His Mind

New York Times Magazine By Ferris JabrMay 12, 2022 Thomas Oxley, a neurologist and the founding C.E.O. of Synchron, thinks future brain-computer interfaces will fall somewhere between LASIK and cardiac pacemakers in terms of their cost and safety, helping people with disabilities recover the capacity to engage with their physical surroundings and a rapidly evolving […]

The First Commercial Brain Computer Interface Is Entering Human Trials

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is overtaken by a rival in a race to regulatory review. Bloomberg By Sarah McBrideMay 4, 2022 Synchron Inc., which develops a so-called brain-computer interface and competes with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp., enrolled the first patient in its U.S. clinical trial, putting the company’s implant on a path toward possible regulatory approval for wider use […]

Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest

Scientific AmericanBy Liam DrewApril 20, 2022 Synchron in New York City has developed a ‘stentrode’ — a set of 16 electrodes fashioned around a blood-vessel stent11. Fitted in a day in an outpatient setting, this device is threaded through the jugular vein to a vein on top of the motor cortex. First implanted in a […]

The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch

Implants are becoming more sophisticated — and are attracting commercial interest. NatureBy Liam DrewApril 20, 2022 Synchron in New York City has developed a ‘stentrode’ — a set of 16 electrodes fashioned around a blood-vessel stent11. Fitted in a day in an outpatient setting, this device is threaded through the jugular vein to a vein […]

Synchron’s brain-computer interface implant deemed safe after one year in ALS patients

Fierce BiotechBy Andrea ParkMar 31, 2022 One year down, a lifetime to go. New results from Synchron’s first human study of its brain-computer interface system—a permanent, stent-like implant—found that one year after the device’s placement, none of the four participants had experienced any adverse events that led to disability or death. The Stentrode system reaches the […]