Category Archives: In The News

By: Sean Whooley Blackrock Neurotech announced today that it revealed its Neuralace next-generation neural interface for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Salt Lake City-based Blackrock unveiled the interface at the Society for Neuroscience 2022 event this week. It designed the Neuralace platform as an ultra-high channel count, flexible electrode. The company said in a news release…

By: Sean Whooley Neuroscientist Sumner Norman and AE Studio develop open-source and free tools for the brain-computer interface (BCI) space. BCI technology has become one of the hottest areas of medtech. Companies are developing a multitude of methods with their own systems that would allow patients to control a computer with their brain. Such technology…

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marcus Gerhardt, chief executive of Blackrock Neurotech, to talk about his boarding school days in Wales (4:00), his dotcom adventures (10:00), pivoting to brain-computer interfaces (16:00), the “Utah array” (18:40), how in 2006 the first person sent an email with his thoughts (20:30), starting the company…

By Florian Solzbacher Brain-computer interface (BCI) science has seen exciting advances and heightened public attention in recent years, and for good reason. The promise of BCI for individuals with paralysis is monumental: To intuitively restore communication, control external devices, and provide the independence that many able-bodied people take for granted. Sitting at the core of…

By Tami Freeman Sumner Norman, chief neuroscientist at AE Studio, talks to Tami Freeman about the company’s work in brain–computer interfaces. A brain–computer interface (BCI) is a system that enables information to flow directly between the brain and an external device such as a computer, smartphone or robotic limb. The BCI includes hardware that records…

By Sean Whooley Blackrock Neurotech, BrainGate, ClearPoint Neuro, Neuralink, Synchron and more race to bring brain-computer interface (BCI) tech to market. They’re using a multitude of methods —  and developing their own systems that would allow patients to control a computer with their brain. Such technology could potentially enable countless immobile people someday to control…

By Jake Mainwaring Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is like something out of a sci-fi movie. The idea of hooking up a person’s brain to a computer in order to elevate the individual’s capabilities, to augment them to overcome the limitations of their flesh, is the kind of plot device used by cyberpunk game developers and writers.…

By Emily Mullin NATHAN COPELAND CONSIDERS himself a cyborg. The 36-year-old has lived with a brain-computer interface for more than seven years and three months. As of today—August 17—that’s the longest anyone has had an implant like this. Four electrode arrays, each the size of a pencil eraser, translate his neural impulses into commands that…

By Adam Rogers  For years — decades, even — news accounts and scientific journals have featured videos of human beings controlling computers with their minds. A person, often with some kind of paralysis, from either injury or disease, gets a computer chip embedded in their head — tiny, needle-like electrodes plunged into the gloppy folds…

By Conn Hastings Blackrock Neurotech, a medtech company based in Salt Lake City, has pioneered an array of brain-computer interface technologies. Medgadget last spoke with Blackrock Neurotech a year ago about their thought-to-text brain computer interface, but since the company signed an agreement with a research institution to develop portable brain computer interface (BCI) systems.…