Close Menu
Ztoog
    What's Hot
    Science

    ‘Drunk’ animals might be more common

    Technology

    The emotions of climate change: How to combat fatigue, anxiety, and complacency

    AI

    Meet DiagrammerGPT: A Novel Two-Stage Text-to-Diagram Generation AI Framework that Leverages the Knowledge of LLMs for Planning and Refining the Overall Diagram Plans

    Important Pages:
    • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest
    Ztoog
    • Home
    • The Future

      How I Turn Unstructured PDFs into Revenue-Ready Spreadsheets

      Is it the best tool for 2025?

      The clocks that helped define time from London’s Royal Observatory

      Summer Movies Are Here, and So Are the New Popcorn Buckets

      India-Pak conflict: Pak appoints ISI chief, appointment comes in backdrop of the Pahalgam attack

    • Technology

      Ensure Hard Work Is Recognized With These 3 Steps

      Cicada map 2025: Where will Brood XIV cicadas emerge this spring?

      Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?

      The US DOD transfers its AI-based Open Price Exploration for National Security program to nonprofit Critical Minerals Forum to boost Western supply deals (Ernest Scheyder/Reuters)

      The more Google kills Fitbit, the more I want a Fitbit Sense 3

    • Gadgets

      Maono Caster G1 Neo & PD200X Review: Budget Streaming Gear for Aspiring Creators

      Apple plans to split iPhone 18 launch into two phases in 2026

      Upgrade your desk to Starfleet status with this $95 USB-C hub

      37 Best Graduation Gift Ideas (2025): For College Grads

      Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk

    • Mobile

      Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge promo materials leak

      What are people doing with those free T-Mobile lines? Way more than you’d expect

      Samsung doesn’t want budget Galaxy phones to use exclusive AI features

      COROS’s charging adapter is a neat solution to the smartwatch charging cable problem

      Fortnite said to return to the US iOS App Store next week following court verdict

    • Science

      Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don’t know where

      Trump administration cuts off all future federal funding to Harvard

      Does kissing spread gluten? New research offers a clue.

      Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US

      ‘Dark photon’ theory of light aims to tear up a century of physics

    • AI

      How to build a better AI benchmark

      Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation | Ztoog

      This data set helps researchers spot harmful stereotypes in LLMs

      Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings | Ztoog

      The AI Hype Index: AI agent cyberattacks, racing robots, and musical models

    • Crypto

      ‘The Big Short’ Coming For Bitcoin? Why BTC Will Clear $110,000

      Bitcoin Holds Above $95K Despite Weak Blockchain Activity — Analytics Firm Explains Why

      eToro eyes US IPO launch as early as next week amid easing concerns over Trump’s tariffs

      Cardano ‘Looks Dope,’ Analyst Predicts Big Move Soon

      Speak at Ztoog Disrupt 2025: Applications now open

    Ztoog
    Home » Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New Records
    Science

    Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New Records

    Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp
    Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New Records
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest WhatsApp

    Ann, a stroke survivor, can talk utilizing a digital avatar that decodes her supposed speech.

    Photograph: Noah Berger/UCSF

    There are trade-offs to each group’s approaches. Implanted electrodes, like those the Stanford group used, file the exercise of particular person neurons, which tends to offer extra detailed data than a recording from the mind’s floor. But they’re additionally much less steady, as a result of implanted electrodes shift round within the mind. Even a motion of a millimeter or two causes adjustments in recorded exercise. “It is hard to record from the same neurons for weeks at a time, let alone months to years at a time,” Slutzky says. And over time, scar tissue types across the web site of an implanted electrode, which might additionally have an effect on the standard of a recording.

    On the opposite hand, a floor array captures much less detailed mind exercise however covers a much bigger space. The alerts it data are extra steady than the spikes of particular person neurons since they’re derived from 1000’s of neurons, Slutzky says.

    During the briefing, Willett mentioned the present know-how is proscribed because of the variety of electrodes that may be safely positioned within the mind directly. “Much like how a camera with more pixels yields a sharper image, using more electrodes will give us a clearer picture of what is happening in the brain,” he mentioned.

    Leigh Hochberg, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brown University who labored with the Stanford group, says 10 years in the past few folks would have imagined that it might sometime be attainable to decode the tried speech of an individual just by recording their mind exercise. “I want to be able to tell my patients with ALS, or brainstem stroke, or other forms of neurologic disease or injury, that we can restore their ability to communicate easily, intuitively, and rapidly,” Hochberg says.

    Though nonetheless slower than typical speech, these new BCIs are sooner than current augmentative and various communication techniques, writes Betts Peters, a speech-language pathologist at Oregon Health and Science University. These techniques require customers to sort out or choose messages utilizing their fingers or eye gaze. “Being able to keep up with the flow of conversation could be an enormous benefit to many people with communication impairments, making it easier to fully participate in all aspects of life,” she instructed WIRED by electronic mail.

    There are nonetheless some technological hurdles to creating an implantable machine with these capabilities. For one, Slutsky says the error charge for each teams remains to be fairly excessive for on a regular basis use. By comparability, present speech recognition techniques developed by Microsoft and Google have an error charge of round 5 p.c.

    Another problem is the longevity and reliability of the machine. A sensible BCI might want to file alerts continually for years and never require each day recalibration, Slutsky says.

    BCIs will even have to be wi-fi, with out the clunky cables required of present techniques to allow them to be used with out sufferers needing to be hooked as much as a pc. Companies equivalent to Neuralink, Synchron, and Paradromics are all engaged on wi-fi techniques.

    “Already the results are incredible,” says Matt Angle, founder and CEO of Austin-based Paradromics, who wasn’t concerned within the new papers. “I think we will start seeing rapid progress toward a medical device for patients.”

    Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn WhatsApp

    Related Posts

    Science

    Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don’t know where

    Science

    Trump administration cuts off all future federal funding to Harvard

    Science

    Does kissing spread gluten? New research offers a clue.

    Science

    Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US

    Science

    ‘Dark photon’ theory of light aims to tear up a century of physics

    Science

    Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise

    Science

    New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

    Science

    Watch an owl try to eat a turtle whole

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    Follow Us
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Instagram
    Top Posts
    Technology

    Why are fictional presidents from Succession to Homeland so young?

    Welcome to Noticed, Vox’s cultural pattern column. You know that factor you’ve been seeing far…

    Technology

    A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based diagnosis tools, as some clinicians say they feel pressure from administrations to defer to the algorithm (Lisa Bannon/Wall Street Journal)

    Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based…

    Gadgets

    Samsung’s Black Friday: Must-Grab Deals On Phones, Watches, TVs And More

    Samsung is ushering within the vacation season with a slew of engaging Black Friday offers,…

    Science

    A sleuthing enthusiast says he found the US military’s X-37B spaceplane

    Enlarge / File picture of an X-37B spaceplane.Boeing It seems a few of the knowledgeable…

    Mobile

    Realme V60 and V60s leak in promo materials, have specs outed by TENAA

    Realme is engaged on a brand new vary of smartphones it appears, primarily based on…

    Our Picks
    Technology

    Norrsken22’s debut fund closes at $205M to back growth-stage startups in Africa

    Technology

    Hohm Energy to scale adoption of rooftop solar across South Africa, backed by $8M seed

    Gadgets

    11 Best Smart Bulbs (2024): Lamp Bulbs, Ambient, Color, Etc

    Categories
    • AI (1,482)
    • Crypto (1,744)
    • Gadgets (1,796)
    • Mobile (1,839)
    • Science (1,853)
    • Technology (1,789)
    • The Future (1,635)
    Most Popular
    Gadgets

    31 Best REI Labor Day Deals (2023): Tents, Sleeping Bags, and Outdoor Gear

    Crypto

    Institutional Investors Increase Bitcoin Appetite Ahead Of Spot ETF, Report Shows

    Mobile

    AMD announces Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT graphics cards

    Ztoog
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest
    • Home
    • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    © 2025 Ztoog.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.