{"id":214220,"date":"2025-05-17T17:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/coming-to-a-brain-near-you-a-tiny-computer"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:10:43","slug":"coming-to-a-brain-near-you-a-tiny-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/coming-to-a-brain-near-you-a-tiny-computer","title":{"rendered":"Coming to a Brain Near You: A Tiny Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coming-to-a-brain-near-you-a-tiny-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with paralysis control computers and communicate their needs, and will soon enable them to manipulate prosthetic limbs without moving a muscle.<\/p>\n<p>The year ahead is pivotal for the companies behind this technology.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 100 people to date have had brain-computer interfaces permanently installed. In the next 12 months, that number will more than double, provided the companies with new FDA experimental-use approval meet their goals in clinical trials. <a data-type=\"company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Apple<\/a> this week announced its intention to <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/apple-brain-computer-interface-9ec69919?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">allow these implants to control iPhones<\/a> and other products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with paralysis control computers and communicate their needs, and will soon enable them to manipulate prosthetic limbs without moving a muscle. The year ahead is pivotal for the companies behind this technology. Fewer than 100 people to date have had brain-computer interfaces permanently installed. In the next 12 months, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214220","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}