Coming Soon to Apple Devices: Brain Control Accessibility Features
- Apple and Synchron announced a partnership to integrate brain-computer interfaces into Apple devices, enabling control by neural signals alone.
- This collaboration follows years of development in BCI implants like Synchron's minimally invasive Stentrode and Neuralink's deeper N1 device.
- Users with severe mobility impairments, such as ALS patients, have tested the technology, using it to navigate Apple products including Vision Pro headsets.
- Dr. Tom Oxley emphasized Apple's contribution to advancing a novel type of user interface that integrates brain signal interpretation with traditional input methods such as touch, voice, and typing.
- Though commercial availability remains years away, this partnership could profoundly enhance accessibility and reshape human-device interaction for people with disabilities.
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Apple probes next frontier with new brain implant standard. But what it really needs is to sell more iPhones
Apple showcased its latest sci-fi vision on Tuesday by announcing that users of its products may one day be able to control them with brain signals. If achieved, with the help of brain implants, it would mark another huge milestone for the company. The initiative, aimed at helping only disabled users, at least for now, shows that Apple still has its eye on cutting-edge innovation. But it also highlights the company’s challenge: Much of that inno…
Apple partners with a brain-computer startup to turn thoughts into device control
Apple is partnering with brain-computer interface company Synchron to develop technology that lets users control devices using neural signals. Still in the early stages, the technology could significantly expand accessibility for users who are unable to operate devices with their hands, Synchron said in a press release. The partnership was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. “This marks a defining moment for human-device interaction,” Syn…
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