From brain to screen: a scientist is ready to directly turn what you think into words


A new method created by a team of Stanford University researchers allows a patient to type with record-breaking speed using only his brain. Brain-computer interface technology has gained public attention after Elon Musk’s Neuralink released video of a monkey playing video games with its mind. — SCMP

A breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) has enabled a man with paralysed hands to type 90 characters a minute just by thinking about the words, making him the world’s fastest mind-typist using that brain-reading technology, according to researchers from Stanford University.

Their study, published in Nature in May and presented at WE Summit, a science conference hosted by Tencent Holdings online on Saturday, enabled the patient to achieve a typing speed twice as fast as people who relied on an older type of BCI technology, which let users type by using their mind to move a cursor to the desired character on a virtual keyboard.

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