{"id":82528,"date":"2018-09-12T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T04:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/darpa-wants-brain-interfaces-for-able-bodied-warfighters"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:19:07","slug":"darpa-wants-brain-interfaces-for-able-bodied-warfighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/darpa-wants-brain-interfaces-for-able-bodied-warfighters","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Wants Brain Interfaces for Able-Bodied Warfighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-wants-brain-interfaces-for-able-bodied-warfighters.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program will fund research on tech that can transmit high-fidelity signals between the brain and some external machine without requiring that the user be cut open for rewiring or implantation. It hasn\u2019t escaped DARPA\u2019s attention that no-surgery-required brain gear that gives people superpowers may find applications beyond the military. The proof-of-concept tech that comes out of the N3 program may lead to consumer products, says Justin Sanchez, director of DARPA\u2019s Biological Technologies Office. \u201cThis will spawn new industries,\u201d he says\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The N3 program will create no-surgery-required neurotech that the general public may also find useful.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/bionics\/darpa-wants-brain-interfaces-for-able-bodied-warfighters\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/bionics\/da...arfighters<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program will fund research on tech that can transmit high-fidelity signals between the brain and some external machine without requiring that the user be cut open for rewiring or implantation. It hasn\u2019t escaped DARPA\u2019s attention that no-surgery-required brain gear that gives people superpowers may find applications beyond the military. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82528","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82661,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82528\/revisions\/82661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}