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Friday, January 25, 2013

#SENSORS: " Brain Cap Reads Minds"

Controlling a computer, automated wheelchair or an electronic prosthetic with your thoughts is being accomplished in the Tools for Brain‐computer Interaction (TOBI) project at The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). Over 100 paralyzed patients have learned how to control electronics--including a remote-controlled robot--with nothing but their mind. And by combining electrical stimulation with mental training, patients have regained functionality in paralyzed limbs: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog

Patients in the TOols for Brain‐computer Interaction (TOBI) program wear brain caps that readout their brain waves in order to control electronics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland).
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