{"id":18204,"date":"2015-10-07T16:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/neural-dust-may-let-minds-meld-with-machines"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:48","slug":"neural-dust-may-let-minds-meld-with-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/neural-dust-may-let-minds-meld-with-machines","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Neural Dust\u2019 May Let Minds Meld With Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-dust-may-let-minds-meld-with-machines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This neural dust sprinkled into an individual\u2019s brain tissue could form an \u201cimplantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earlier this month, five researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, put out a paper <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1307.2196v1.pdf\" target=\"_hplink\">discussing the possible development of mind-reading \u201cneural dust,\u201d<\/a> which could be implanted directly into the human brain to allow people to interact with machines.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/517091\/how-smart-dust-could-spy-on-your-brain\/\" target=\"_hplink\">what the MIT Technology Review calls<\/a> a theoretical study: The idea is \u201clittered with challenges beyond the state-of-the-art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1307.2196v1.pdf\" target=\"_hplink\">according to the Berkeley team<\/a>, this neural dust sprinkled into an individual\u2019s brain tissue could form an \u201cimplantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/17\/neural-dust_n_3612307.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This neural dust sprinkled into an individual\u2019s brain tissue could form an \u201cimplantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime.\u201d Earlier this month, five researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, put out a paper discussing the possible development of mind-reading \u201cneural dust,\u201d which could be implanted directly into the human brain to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69400,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204\/revisions\/69400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}