{"id":242500,"date":"2026-08-11T01:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/could-the-next-brain-interface-get-sprayed-up-your-nose"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:04:06","slug":"could-the-next-brain-interface-get-sprayed-up-your-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/could-the-next-brain-interface-get-sprayed-up-your-nose","title":{"rendered":"Could the Next Brain Interface Get Sprayed Up Your Nose?"},"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\/6oe3SbgAFe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A brain computer interface (BCI) is any technology that allows you to connect your 3 pounds of wetware to a computer. But instead of implanting electrodes via neurosurgery, might the next revolution in BCIs come from something very small, like nanoparticles? Would this allow us to spy on millions (or billions) of neurons talking at once \u2014 and could we do so without opening the skull? Will this allow BCI tech to become as common as smartphones? Join Eagleman as he talks with Tetiana Aleksandrova and Scott Meek from the company Subsense about why the next brain-computer interface might come from thinking small.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for new episodes weekly. \ud83d\udece<\/p>\n<p>INNER COSMOS PODCAST: Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman tackles wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives.<br \/> \u2764\ufe0f iHeartRadio: ihr.fm\/3TxDAqb.<br \/> \ud83c\udf4e Apple podcasts: apple.co\/3LTxTkH<br \/> \ud83d\udce2 Amazon Music: amzn.to\/3ZxGM6R<br \/> \ud83d\udfe2 Spotify: spoti.fi\/3lOaXZl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/X.com\/davideagleman\">X.com\/davideagleman<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/davideagleman\">instagram.com\/davideagleman<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/david.m.eagleman\">fb.com\/david.m.eagleman<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/davideagleman\">linkedin.com\/in\/davideagleman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#Eagleman #InnerCosmos #Science #Neuroscience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brain computer interface (BCI) is any technology that allows you to connect your 3 pounds of wetware to a computer. But instead of implanting electrodes via neurosurgery, might the next revolution in BCIs come from something very small, like nanoparticles? Would this allow us to spy on millions (or billions) of neurons talking at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1512,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242500","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}