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Neuralink Aims to Market a Brain-Computer Interface Product Within 4 Years

posted by martyb on Sunday April 23 2017, @02:39AM   
from the plug-and-play? dept.

takyon writes:

Elon Musk's latest venture aims to bring a product to market within four years, but it could be additional decade before healthy people get "neural lace" brain implants:

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink Corp is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.

Neuralink is aiming to bring to the market a product that helps with certain severe brain injuries due to stroke, cancer lesion etc, in about four years, Musk said in an interview with website Wait But Why.

"If I were to communicate a concept to you, you would essentially engage in consensual telepathy," Musk said in the interview published on Thursday. http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

Reuters links to an incredibly long piece with some possibly informative stick figure drawings.

Previously: Elon Musk Launches Company to Link Your Brain to a Computer

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• Updates Updates (Score: 2, Interesting) by slap on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:12PM (1 child)

  by slap (5764) on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:12PM (#498343)

  I can see it now - you get the implants done, and a year later, there is a new standard for interfaces that comes out. So every few years you have to have your skull opened up so that you can have the latest interface tech.

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• Re:Updates (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:09PM

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:09PM (#498515) Homepage

  Nah, there will be only two kinds of interfaces - Apple's and everybody else's.

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