Scott Kirsner takes a look at the BrainGate Company, a Boston and L.A.-based startup working on software that would allow quadriplegics to control computers with their thoughts. The BrainGate Co. was created by former Brown researcher Jeff Stibel from the remnants of Foxborough-based CyberKinetics Neurotechnology Systems.
The startup is working on the same brain-computer interface technology as Braingate2, the Brown University/Mass General project featured on Sunday’s night’s 60 Minutes.
60 Minutes updated a 2008 story about mind-controlled technology last night. The piece spotlights Brown researcher John Donoghue’s Braingate system, which allows a woman paralyzed after a stroke to control a computer cursor with her thoughts via sensors implanted in her brain. Mass General’s Leigh Hochberg is conducting the clinical trial for the technology.
Last month, Singularity Hub posted about Braingate2, which introduces wireless networking to the mix.
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