Friday, September 13, 2024

Tag: Computers

iBOT Mobility System

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Screening and diagnosis

Paramedics and emergency workers are trained to treat people who have suffered a traumatic head or neck injury as if they have a spinal...

Woman in wheelchair encourages others

PROVIDENCE, R.I.— John Donoghue believes there may be a solution to spinal cord injuries that doesn't require a move into the controversial world of...

‘BrainGate’ Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape

An implantable, brain-computer interface the size of an aspirin has been clinically tested on humans by American company Cyberkinetics. The 'BrainGate' device can provide...

California’s 21st-century Stem Cell Gold Rush

Roxanne Khamsi A pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap...

Researchers want to read the minds of spinal cord injury patients

Why researchers want to read the minds of spinal cord injury patients. Imagine a wheelchair with robotic arms that move on command by reading the...

Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Supports Brain-Computer Interface Breakthrough

SPRINGFIELD, N.J., July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The July 9, 2004 edition of Science reports on an exciting study, "Cognitive Control Signals for Neural...

He’s still Close to perfect

For years Chuck Close has reduced faces into paintings and prints of shorthand data: Noses become dots and dashes, eyes dissolve into a mosaic...

With Tiny Brain Implants, Just Thinking May Make It So

Can a machine read a person's mind? A medical device company is about to find out. The company, Cyberkinetics Inc., plans to implant a tiny...

Linux on Power from IBM for Critical Stem Cell Research

Department of Molecular Biology Displaces Dell, Turns to IBM for Crucial Technology NEW YORK, N.Y., April 1, 2004 - Today at a press conference in...