{"id":94247,"date":"2019-07-30T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/facebook-is-funding-brain-experiments-to-create-a-device-that-reads-your-mind"},"modified":"2019-07-30T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:22:28","slug":"facebook-is-funding-brain-experiments-to-create-a-device-that-reads-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/facebook-is-funding-brain-experiments-to-create-a-device-that-reads-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-is-funding-brain-experiments-to-create-a-device-that-reads-your-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/604229\/facebooks-sci-fi-plan-for-typing-with-your-mind-and-hearing-with-your-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it wanted to create a headband that would let people type at a speed of 100 words per minute, just by thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a little over two years later, the social media giant is revealing that it has been financing extensive university research on human volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Today, some of that research was described in a scientific paper from the University of California, San Francisco, where researchers have been developing \u201cspeech decoders\u201d able to determine what people are trying to say from their brain signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, Facebook announced that it wanted to create a headband that would let people type at a speed of 100 words per minute, just by thinking. Now, a little over two years later, the social media giant is revealing that it has been financing extensive university research on human volunteers. Today, some of that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94247","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\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}