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For scientific research based on use of The vOICe vision BCI there are no strings, non-disparagement clauses or NDAs attached #BCI

The science behind The vOICe vision BCI
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe.

Many BCI companies use the narrative that if you create fancy technology you will get fancy clinical results #BCI

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(YouTube) Paradromics CEO Matt Angle talks Paradromics and BCI market dynamic #BCI #NeuroTech

Ethical considerations for implantable human brain–computer interfaces #BCI

Ethical considerations for implantable human brain–computer interfaces - Nature Neuroscience
Implanted brain–computer interfaces hold great promise for restoring communication and other functions and for revealing new aspects of human brain physiology. Yet as the number of implantations in humans expands, ethical clarity must keep pace with technical ambition. We propose that this should involve distinguishing research participation from patient care, ensuring long-term support for study participants, ensuring that research participants do not bear disproportionate risks for benefits…

Evaluating a transparent cranial window for in vivo observation of µECoG arrays on the macaque visual cortex #BCI

The Brain and The Chip 2026, October 26-28, Spain #BCI

"Restoring sight to the blind": what Neuralink's Blindsight implant can actually do #BCI

Neuralink Blindsight: what the implant can actually do
Neuralink announces an implant to restore sight. Dated timeline, real state of published data, and what it changes for AMD or diabetic retinopathy.

(YouTube, Spanish) UMHTV – Recuperación inesperada de la visión de una persona ciega mediante microestimulación cerebral (Unexpected recovery of vision in a blind person through brain microstimulation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLJBxeLo20

(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail, versus The vOICe sensory substitution alternative #BCI

The state of NeuroTech 2026 #BCI #NeuroTech

The State of NeuroTech 2026
Explore the 2026 NeuroTech landscape: 100 companies working on neural interfaces, neuromodulation, diagnostics, rehabilitation and research platforms.

The main contender for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind is not yet another brain implant, but something entirely different that is 100% biocompatible, noninvasive, affordable and scalable https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html

The BCI questions nobody is funding yet, and why it matters #BCI

⁉️ The BCI Question Nobody Is Funding Yet, and Why It Matters
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 22

(YouTube) Unboxing your #BCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moh_ytOHAwU Plug into your living mouse for unspecified animal experiments, by Science Corp.

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants https://insidebci.com/news/2026-07-20-stairmed-18-patients-huashan-shanghai-penetrating-bci-trial/

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants
On 20 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, StairMed disclosed that its cortex-penetrating invasive BCI clinical trial at Huashan Hospital has now reached 18 cumulative implants since March 2025. The Shanghai firm co-founded by Zhao Zhengtuo and Xue Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in Brain Science demonstrated a patient three months post-op controlling a wheelchair by thought and hitting 6.19 bits per second on a cursor task, alongs…

IEEE Spectrum: World's first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant "Users get round-the-clock hearing with no visible external hardware";

First Fully Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches
Users get round-the-clock hearing with no visible external hardware

To ChatGPT: Write a pitch favoring The vOICe vision BCI over Neuralink Blindsight (should not be hard, right?) #BCI

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A visual imagery paradigm for #BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-41324-6 (table correction at

A visual imagery paradigm for BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns - Scientific Reports
Steady state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) are a popular type of control signals in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in which they are typically elicited by observing a visual stimulus flashing at a specific frequency. For some patients, using SSVEP as control signal for a BCI can be difficult, for instance if they are unable to focus their gaze over the visual stimuli. To address this issue, some approaches were presented to design a gaze-independent SSVEP-controlled BCI but some diffic…

(2019, Amazon) My brain implant for bionic vision: the first trial of artificial sight for the blind #BCI

(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail. #BCI #blindness

Updated white paper (living document) on brain implants for restoring vision and noninvasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution #BCI

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

(YouTube, Russian) Streamed 7 years ago #BCI

Development of a primary visual cortex model to investigate cortical visual prosthesis stimulation #BCI

Development of a Primary Visual Cortex Model to Investigate Cortical Visual Prosthesis Stimulation
A new electrical stimulation focused computational model of the visual cortex had been created to aid in the development of cortical visual prosthesis. The model consists of 10,666 biophysical neurons representing 0.13mm3 of a layer 2/3 of the primary visual cortex and was calibrated to match the baseline activity of rat brain recordings. A novel model of electrical stimulation was developed to allow for selective activation of specific neuron types, and matched the single cell stimulation resp…

For the believers: Towards interstellar brain-computer interfaces #BCI

Project Overview ‹ Towards Interstellar Brain-Computer Interfaces – MIT Media Lab
Currently, we are seeing more and more robotics and AI efforts in space. However, to scale human activity and energy in space, we need humans in space — and we…

Science fiction? ChatGPT on the Hari Seldon of BCI #BCI

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Probing ChatGPT on the claim "At some point, every implant for restoring vision becomes obsolete. Implants come and go, The vOICe vision BCI is there to stay." https://chatgpt.com/share/6abbb154-774c-83eb-9b11-7d95e56018c3

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Version v3 of the white paper and living document on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision is now on Zenodo #BCI

#Neuralink supply chain in 2026: who actually makes the N1 implant? #BCI

1 big thing: Brain implants stoke U.S.-China rivalry #BCI

🧠 Brain implant rivalry

Cortigent: "Our goal is to help the profoundly blind regain visual perception" https://www.cortigent.com/orion Orion brain implant with 60 electrodes (like Argus II retinal implant); Cortigent may lack the resources for a major redesign (upgrade);

Elon Musk, it's October 2026. Why can Neuralink still not even show a video clip of a monkey performing a blind reaching and grasping task using its Blindsight brain implant? #BCI

(LinkedIn) Mindtrix Technology: Chinese competition for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? #BCI

"Paradromics achieves real-time speech with Connexus BCI" https://paradromics.com/news/paradromics-achieves-real-time-speech-connexus-brain-computer-interface/

Paradromics Achieves Real-Time Speech with Connexus® Brain-Computer Interface
Paradromics' Connexus® BCI enables the first participant to speak in real time using neural activity, choosing her own words to communicate.

Good enough is enough: once noninvasive BCIs catch up with invasive BCIs for (maybe 2x) natural bps, the market for invasive BCI devices will mostly collapse. #BCI #NeuroTech

Without the months of training needed with brain implants for restoring vision, one cannot make a fair comparison with The vOICe noninvasive vision BCI #BCI

Seeing anew: mechanisms, outcomes, and challenges in adapting to restored sight via visual prostheses #BCI…

Living through the age of the narrative: much like #AI companies keep promising AGI and great economic growth, invasive #BCI companies keep promising that their brain implants will cure or provide relief for many neurological disorders. Sure, there will be some successes, but...

It looks like brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will need AI scene description to become practical/useful/functional while giving phosphenes (to late-blind) mostly for the visual experience with light perception. #hybrid #BCI #AI

NERVE Attacks: breaking AI-powered brain-computer interfaces #BCI #AI

Sensory restoration via brain-computer interfaces: a scoping review https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15091 "Teams developing high-density invasive stimulation interfaces rarely collaborate with teams building non-invasive sensory substitution setups";

Sensory Restoration via Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Scoping Review
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can restore sensory and motor function in individuals with severe neurological impairment, but the literature is fragmented between invasive neuroprosthetics and non-invasive electrophysiological decoders, with inconsistent terminology and metrics. This scoping review maps BCI-mediated sensory restoration along a unified 2x2 framework (invasiveness x signal direction), charts representative modalities and their trade-offs, and synthesizes a convergence roadmap f…

(YouTube) No Priors podcast: From restoring sight to reimagining the brain, with Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corporation #BCI

Scientific and technological developments in brain-computer interfaces: Dual bibliometric analysis of articles and patents #BCI

Neurotech in Spain, Portugal and Italy #BCI

Neurotech in Spain, Portugal and Italy
Greetings from Napa, where I’m an hour away from attending One Mind.

Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1855768/full neural dust, neural motes;

Frontiers | Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation
We examine ongoing research for implantable sensors and stimulators for future brain-computer applications and give a review on the concept where grain-of-sa...

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(YouTube) What's stopping neurotech from reaching patients? #NeuroTech #BCI…

Neuralink Blindsight won't work for people with real blindsight (people who are cortically blind yet still respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see) #BCI

(YouTube) The Med Device Cyber Podcast: Could a hacker change what a patient sees? With Frederik Ceyssens about the ReVision Implant visual prosthesis #BCI

(Chinese) 对话明视脑机刘冰：脑机接口已经到了一个必须靠创新才能往前走的节点 #BCI

对话明视脑机刘冰：脑机接口已经到了一个必须靠创新才能往前走的节点
对话明视脑机刘冰：脑机接口已经到了一个必须靠创新才能往前走的节点

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke #BCI

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke
Implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) with single-neuron resolution are showing great promise for restoring mobility and communication in individuals with spinal cord injury or motor neuron disease. Stroke is the most common cause of acquired brain injury and a major contributor to long-term disability, making chronic stroke a highly relevant indication for iBCIs. However, whether stable intracortical recordings can be obtained from the structurally lesioned human brain is unknown. We r…

(YouTube) A simple yet nontrivial training exercise for sighted people interested in sensory substitution for the blind as an alternative for a brain implant #BCI

Vision restoration to people with long-term blindness using the brain-computer interface technology: A sociotechnical research framework to improve usefulness for users #BCI

Vision Restoration to People with Long-Term Blindness Using the Brain- | PPA | Dove Medical Press
employ a sociotechnical approach to discuss aspects that influence the usefulness of the vision restoration to people with long-term blindness

The narrative of visual prosthesis developers is likely to change and lean much more heavily on the use of AI in combination with smart glasses, to make the visual prosthesis practical despite extremely low quality of restored vision: AI scene description phosphenes. #BCI #blindness

Government strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race

Government Strategy Is Shaping the Global Brain-Computer Interface Race   - Neurotech Reports
Three events converged this year to turn brain-computer interfaces from a research curiosity into a subject of government strategy. China moved a product to market, having already built the machinery to pay for it. The U.S. funded a founder. The European Union asked its regulators to study a problem. This is not an accident of timing. It reflects fundamentally different beliefs about what a government should do when a new technology can read, and may soon write to, the human brain.  

From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1928223/full

Frontiers | From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology
Brain implants, including deep brain stimulation (DBS) systems, brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), and speech neuroprostheses, are moving from the proof-of-co...

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China releases world's first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard #AI

China releases world’s first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard: media - Global Times
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) on Monday approved the release of its third medical device standard for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which is also the world’s first medical device product standard for BCIs that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to process brain electrical signal data. The new standard will officially take effect on September 1, 2027, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.

Building brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company https://www.thetransmitter.org/frameshift/building-brain-computer-interfaces-at-a-neurotech-company/ on Blackrock Neurotech;

Building brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company
At Blackrock Neurotech, Spencer Kellis develops implantable devices that help people with brain and spinal cord conditions communicate, move and more.

The PhD student machine is more easily kept spinning with a never-ending series of technical and biological challenges related to implants, giving an academic research incentive bias that may not favor the best approaches for patients. #invasive #implantable