Pedro Irazoqui said that a person can move a cursor by thinking it to move.
The Brain-Computer Interface Lab, Purdue University, is focused on the design of clinical neural prosthetic devices. Telemetry, power, and control modules, are designed with appropriate biological sensing and stimulating capabilities, on application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The ASICs are mounted on microstrip boards, with patch antennas, and neural electrodes. These assemblies are packaged using bio-compatible ceramics, to form miniature, wireless, implantable devices. The devices designed in the BCI Lab, interface the brain with external real-time DSP computers, providing closed-loop clinical treatment of neural pathologies. Epilepsy and spinal-cord injury are of particular interest.
I wonder how long it will take for brain linked hardware to appear for experimenting with school learning. I think I’ll look into this further.
How does brain computer interfacing fit into your vision of education in 2006?
I admit I have not included it yet, and I wonder when I should start considering ways it could effect (not just affect) what a teacher does. Fascinating!