If A Single Neuron Fires in the Brain, Will Anyone See It? By Sam Brusco for Medical Design Technology magazine 5 March 2015 Let me introduce Andy Gotshalk, CEO of Blackrock NeuroMed. With almost 20 years of experience in the medical device industry, Gotshalk began as a field service engineer, rising through the ranks to…
DetailsWoman Controls a Fighter Jet Sim Using Only Her Mind By Nick Stockton for Wired 5 March 2015 Jan Scheuermann uses a mind-controlled robot arm to eat a chocolate bar.(UPMC/University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) ALL JAN SHEUERMANN wanted to do was feed herself some chocolate. She ended up piloting the world’s most…
DetailsControl Your Home With a Brain Implant By John Cusack for Geek Reply 25 January 2015 The headline seems a bit arrogant and unreal, but researchers at Brown University have teamed up with Blackrock Microsystems and actually made a brain implant which can remotely control various devices in your home. The main idea behind their…
DetailsA Brain-Computer Interface That Works Wirelessly By Antonio Regalado for MIT Technology Review 14 January 2015 A wireless transmitter could give paralyzed people a practical way to control TVs, computers, or wheelchairs with their thoughts. A wireless brain interface uses the head-worn transmitter, shown. A few paralyzed patients could soon be using a wireless brain-computer…
DetailsFor Utah Tech Startup, Federal Funding Proved Risky By Kristen Moulton for The Salt Lake Tribune 10 January 2015 Blackrock Microsystems nearly went bankrupt when gridlock took hold in Washington. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Florian Solzbacher, President of Blackrock Microsystems, talks about the tiny electrodes Blackrock makes that researchers can implant in…
DetailsSALT LAKE CITY (Dec. 18, 2014)—Neuroscience research has gone wireless. Today, Blackrock Microsystems LLC announced that it has struck an agreement with Brown University to license and commercialize a wireless neural activity monitoring system that will liberate neuroscientists from the cumbersome wires and cables that have burdened their research for decades. The journal Neuron just published a paper on a wireless neurosensor from the Neuroengineering Laboratory at Brown, which significantly outperforms all other wireless sensors currently on the market. Related to that paper, senior author Arto Nurmikko commented, “This device enables new types of neuroscience experiments with vast amounts of brain data wirelessly and continuously streamed from brain microcircuits.”
DetailsNew Brain Implant Tech from Blackrock is Making ‘Mind Over Matter’ a Reality By John Hewitt for Extreme Tech 18 December 2014 In 2012 quadriplegic Jan Scheuermann had two electrode arrays implanted in her brain’s left motor cortex. Within a week, she could use the implant to move a prosthetic arm in all three dimensions,…
DetailsSALT LAKE CITY (Dec. 2, 2014)—This weekend, a handshake marked the opening of Blackrock Microsystems LLC’s new European headquarters in Hanover, Germany. But this was no ordinary handshake. Instead, Olaf Lies, the Lower Saxony minister of economics, labor, and transport, grasped an amputee’s bionic hand developed and manufactured by German prosthetics firm Ottobock. Blackrock’s revolutionary brain and peripheral neural interface technology enables intuitive control of such next-generation prosthetics.
DetailsSALT LAKE CITY (Nov. 5, 2014)—Blackrock Microsystems, the industry leader in neuroscience research equipment, today announced partnerships with two neuroscience research firms — Germany-based PhenoSys and Israel-based NAN Instruments – that will create a truly comprehensive set of tools for neuroscience researchers that facilitate faster and more cost-effective research. Blackrock Microsystems will incorporate specific technologies from PhenoSys and NAN Instruments to offer a fully integrated suite of electrophysiology research products.
DetailsCompletely Paralyzed Woman Picks Up Cup — With Her Mind By Graham Flanagan for Business Insider 14 August 2014 Worldwide, 6 million people suffer from paralysis, which robs them of their ability to move and sometimes to speak. But what if people who are paralyzed could control prosthetic limbs just by thinking? This breakthrough concept…
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