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ALS Patients Use a Brain Implant To Type 6 Words Per Minute

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: September 29th, 2015, 12:00pm UTC

the_newsbeagle writes: With electrodes implanted in their neural tissue and a new brain-computer interface, two paralyzed people with ALS used their thoughts to control a computer cursor with unprecedented accuracy and speed. They showed off their skills by using a predictive text-entering program to type sentences, achieving a rate of 6 words per minute. While paralyzed people can type faster using other assistive technologies that are already on the market, like eye-gaze trackers and air-puff controllers, a brain implant could be the only option for paralyzed people who can't reliably control their eyes or mouth muscles.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=ALS+Patients+Use+a+Brain+Implant+To+Type+6+Words+Per+Minute%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1NZvYpl"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F09%2F29%2F1419252%2Fals-patients-use-a-brain-implant-to-type-6-words-per-minute%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/09/29/1419252/als-patients-use-a-brain-implant-to-type-6-words-per-minute?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/09/29/1419252/als-patients-use-a-brain-implant-to-type-6-words-per-minute?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/c-gMUZyZEuo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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