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Title    FDA Starts Looking at Next-Generation Prosthetics
Date    Thursday November 27 2014, @01:40PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the thinking-about-it dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/11/27/0146259

tonyPick writes:

Nature has an article on the future regulation of thought controlled prosthetics.

For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world with prosthetic devices wired directly to their brains.
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The advances are also starting to attract serious attention from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is wrestling with how best to regulate such brain–computer interfaces to ensure that they are safe

The article looks at the way proposed regulation may affect the work of private companies in this area, and references recent work at Caltech. More background to this work and other efforts is available in this New Scientist article from October.

Links
  1. "tonyPick" - https://soylentnews.org/~tonyPick/
  2. "future regulation of thought controlled prosthetics" - http://www.nature.com/news/us-regulators-move-on-thought-controlled-prosthetics-1.16407
  3. "recent work at Caltech" - http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/11/5/056024/
  4. "New Scientist article" - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429914.400-prosthetic-hand-recreates-feeling-of-cotton-bud-touch.html?full=true
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