#bci — Public Fediverse posts

After doing a few dozen implants, "field returns" will start to bite Neuralink's business. #BCI #NeuroTech

(Dutch) "Ik dacht altijd: blinde mensen weer zicht geven is sciencefiction" https://archive.ph/8P87t (archived from https://fd.nl/tech-en-innovatie/1615413/ik-dacht-altijd-blinde-mensen-weer-zicht-geven-is-sciencefiction) #Phosphoenix #BCI #gluurbril #blinden

(Dutch) "Ik dacht altijd: blinde mensen weer zicht geven is sciencefiction" https://archive.ph/8P87t (archived from https://fd.nl/tech-en-innovatie/1615413/ik-dacht-altijd-blinde-mensen-weer-zicht-geven-is-sciencefiction) #Phosphoenix #BCI #gluurbril #blinden

Critical scaling of cortical ensembles without cooperative amplification https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.07.757392v1 "coordinated firing increases representational specificity without escaping the critical dynamics governing propagation"

This might make it hard for ICMS-based as well as optogenetic cortical visual prostheses for the blind to activate the "right" ensembles for meaningful ("specific") imagery encoding of visual input? Thinking of form vision. #BCI #blindness #optogenetics #neuroscience

(Review) An update on human visual prosthesis: The Claes H. Dohlman lecture 2025 https://www.ovid.com/jnls/tjop/fulltext/10.4103/tjo.tjo-d-25-00041~an-update-on-human-visual-prosthesis-the-claes-h-dohlman As usual, noninvasive sensory substitution is missing due to a (too) narrow choice of keywords and key phrases or a (too) narrow definition of vision; #BCI #blindness

Once you have your feet back on the ground, read this white paper on brain implants for restoring vision to the blind https://www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html #BCI #blindness

(YouTube) Now what will Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight first human brain implant PR event look like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5p-_tE8d0&t=680s Tesla SpaceX Roadster event; #BCI #blindness

What happens when AI can read our minds? https://archive.ph/3NWbo (archived from https://www.ft.com/content/45ea3dd0-080d-49a2-86e9-df0148929bf4) FT about "Phase Lock", Saturnin Pugnet's manifesto; #AI #BCI

(LinkedIn) Two new companion apps for use of The vOICe for Android app with cameras or camera glasses connected to a smartphone are being developed by blind users of The vOICe vision BCI, and released as APK files for side-loading https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petermeijer_blind-accessibility-a11y-share-7516558257608474624-jXAZ/ #BCI #AI #blindness

Consider the physical bandwidth choke point of modern computing:

Human thought coordinates associative memory across ~86 billion neurons. Yet our maximum mechanical output channel into machines is two thumbs tapping on glass at 35 words per minute.

High-bandwidth neural interfaces aren't sci-fi mind control—they are sensory-motor bandwidth expansion ports.

#BCI #Neurotech #HumanMachineInterface #FutureTech

(image) This is what contemporary brain implant technology is like. Disclaimer: Any resemblance to Utah arrays and Neuralink's implant technology is purely coincidental. In bed with #BCI #NeuroTech

To ChatGPT: The vOICe vision BCI's noninvasive sensory substitution deserves inclusion in independent, functional comparisons of other (invasive) artificial vision technologies such as brain implants and retinal implants for restoring vision to the blind. https://chatgpt.com/share/6acf4ac2-8240-83ed-92e2-3bf4a7de05f4

ChatGPT: "Excluding an established, noninvasive, camera-based sensory substitution technology from functional artificial-vision benchmarks risks producing an incomplete—and potentially misleading—picture of the benefits of invasive interventions." #BCI #blindness

Based on the phosphene shape set from the paper https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.05.26364412 I tried to let ChatGPT render a plausible-looking phosphene image of a chair as seen from multiple viewpoints, but had a hard time doing so https://chatgpt.com/share/6acfc368-8440-83eb-b373-3942ab39e03a #BCI #blindness

Consider the physical bandwidth choke point of modern computing:

Human thought coordinates associative memory across ~86 billion neurons. Yet our maximum mechanical output channel into machines is two thumbs tapping on glass at 35 words per minute.

High-bandwidth neural interfaces aren't sci-fi mind control—they are sensory-motor bandwidth expansion ports.

#BCI #Neurotech #HumanMachineInterface #FutureTech

Intracortical microstimulation evokes diverse electrode-specific phosphenes in the early visual cortex of blind individuals https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.05.26364412v1 "Phosphenes ranged from simple dots to elongated, textured, circular, or otherwise idiosyncratic forms." #ICMS #BCI #blindness

To ChatGPT: Would reimbursement for the PRIMA retinal implant for treating Stargardt disease make sense? https://chatgpt.com/share/6acf7019-1458-83ed-9f48-a4d4c281e7e2 #BCI #blindness

ChatGPT: "Routine reimbursement of the PRIMA retinal implant for Stargardt disease would be difficult to justify on the evidence currently available."

"Would a person with Stargardt disease, already equipped with optimized low-vision aids, talking OCR and AI assistance, gain enough additional independence and quality of life from PRIMA to justify its full lifetime costs and medical risks?"

Terahertz liquid networks: a mesoscopic passive architecture for circumventing physical deadlocks in brain-computer interfaces https://pubs.rsc.org/na/article/doi/10.1039/d6na00618c/1368417/Terahertz-liquid-networks-a-mesoscopic-passive using injectable plasmonic nanoparticles as free-floating relay nodes; #BCI #NeuroTech

The vOICe vision BCI's AI depth view option applied to a snapshot from the YouTube video: can be useful for blind obstacle detection and localization https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe The vOICe for Android from Google Play: Options menu | AI depth view; #noninvasive #BCI

(YouTube) Science Corporation: First patient with Stargardt disease using PRIMA retinal implant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeBkq6kEYP8 Keep in mind that reading with a retinal implant is painfully slow as compared to using talking OCR or a screen reader for the blind. Scanning the view. #BCI #blindness

(Review) Applications of functional ultrasound brain-computer interfaces in neurological diseases: research progress based on neurovascular coupling https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1946753/full "yet-unclear biosafety of chronic ultrasound exposure" #fUS #ultrasound #BCI #NeuroTech

(2025) Spatiotemporal properties of cortical excitatory and inhibitory neuron activation by sustained and bursting electrical microstimulation https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00968-X "Electrodes in visual cortex disrupted circuits, but #ICMS still evoked activity"; #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience

"Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of sensory brain regions can create artificial sensations, yet these percepts fade with continued stimulation, suggesting dynamic changes in underlying neural activity."

Cells tell why artificial sensations fade https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/cells-tell-why-artificial-sensations by TK Kozai in the "Why BCIs fail series".