{"id":196435,"date":"2024-09-20T09:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/surgery-free-neuralink-rival-enables-thought-controlled-smart-home"},"modified":"2024-09-20T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:40:21","slug":"surgery-free-neuralink-rival-enables-thought-controlled-smart-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/surgery-free-neuralink-rival-enables-thought-controlled-smart-home","title":{"rendered":"Surgery-free Neuralink rival enables thought-controlled smart home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ADYQj90GmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Neurotech company Synchron has been making massive strides over the past couple of years. It\u2019s just announced that a trial participant has used its brain-computer interface (BCI) to turn on the lights in his home, see who is at the door, and choose what to watch on the TV \u2013 hands-free and without even a voice command.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s thanks to Synchron\u2019s interface translating his thoughts into commands relayed to Amazon\u2019s Alexa service. The virtual assistant is set up on his tablet and connected to his smart home devices. The trial participant, who is living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and can\u2019t use his hands, can simply think about navigating through options displayed on the tablet to engage them.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018Stentrode\u2019 embedded in a blood vessel on the surface of his brain houses electrodes that detect motor intent. The participant uses his thoughts to select which tiles to press on the interface and perform actions via Alexa. Watch him use the system in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurotech company Synchron has been making massive strides over the past couple of years. It\u2019s just announced that a trial participant has used its brain-computer interface (BCI) to turn on the lights in his home, see who is at the door, and choose what to watch on the TV \u2013 hands-free and without even a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196435","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}