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The silence around actual progress with the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind is deafening, and its opaqueness is blinding too. #BCI #hype vs #transparency &

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.

Biocompatibility trap #BCI

Biocompatibility trap
Why BCIs Fail Series: Definition Mistake

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision #BCI #NeuroTech

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision
Motif Neurotech's Jacob Robinson, Neurosoft's Nicolas Vachicouras, Precision Neuroscience's Benjamin Rapoport, Science Corp's Max Hodak, Paradromics' Matt Angle, Synchron's Tom Oxley, weigh in on culture in brain-computer interface

🕵️ Your brain's immune system isn't fighting the implant. It's listening to it. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/your-brains-immune-cells-are-eavesdropping Post 15 in the Why BCIs Fail series;

🕵️ Your Brain's Immune System Isn't Fighting the Implant. It's Listening to It.
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 15

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

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

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…

Review article: Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation #BCI

Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation | Nature Reviews Bioengineering
The restoration of sensory function following injury or disease represents a critical challenge in neuroengineering. Sensory neuroprostheses, particularly those targeting the primary visual (V1) and somatosensory (S1) cortices, promise to bypass damaged afferent pathways and reintroduce sensory percepts through direct cortical stimulation. Building on foundational insights from non-human primate research, epicortical and intracortical microstimulation has been used to evoke artificial visual an…

Low-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness

(YouTube) Neuralink: Our first transdural procedure #BCI #NeuroTech

(LinkedIn) The BCI race: innovation vs. scale (and why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bci-race-innovation-vs-scale-why-us-might-lose-war-panda-yu-6ba5c/

The BCI Race: Innovation vs. Scale (And why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥
The BCI Race: Innovation vs. Scale (And why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥 While the West fixates on Neuralink’s latest patient milestones and venture-backed celebrity founders, a massive shift is happening in the East that the global tech community is largely ignoring.

When will @… write about Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? Still nothing in sight. #BCI

(YouTube) Gestala CEO Phoenix Peng on Bloomberg TV: The future of non-invasive ultrasound BCI #noninvasive

Brain-computer interfaces and patients' rights: some key principles, according to Science Corporation's Alex Feerst https://science.xyz/news/bci-principles/ What happens once the implant fails? Long-term support, thinking of Argus II, Dobelle?

Brain-Computer Interfaces and Patients' Rights: Some Key Principles | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

NeuroXess eyes mass BCI production with new unit coming online in H2 #BCI

NeuroXess eyes mass BCI production with new unit coming online in H2
Chinese brain-computer interface company NeuroXess is gearing up for what it sees as the next phase of the industry: mass production.

(YouTube) #BCI without opening the skull, the race with China, and the 2040s | Tom Oxley, Synchron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gvHqRv8gTg

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...

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

(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals.

Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness

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

NeuroXess eyes mass BCI production with new unit coming online in H2 #BCI

An exceptionally conductive hydrogel for all-organic, ultraflexible, and chronic neural interfaces #BCI

Artificial Vision 2026 - International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics, Aachen, Germany. Call for abstracts, deadline September 16, 2026 #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

🧠 A logic failure that costs decades. Why BCIs fail: post 12b https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/a-logic-failure-that-costs-decades "Inflammation matters. Neuron death matters. Oligodendrocyte function matters."

AFAIK this is authentic #BCI

Air Ambulance for Neuralink | GiveSendGo
My husband has been my hero for years—quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent, yet still greeting every morning with quiet courage and a love that lights up ou…

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Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy #BCI

Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy
Researchers have been working for decades on brain-computer interfaces to help those suffering from paralysis, blindness and hearing loss.

Implantable neuromodulation devices in psychiatry: human fidelity and implementation challenges #BCI

Sound can complement electrode-based brain implants (BCIs) in multiple ways. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/sound-waves-against-scar-tissue "What if we could redirect the brain's immune response using nothing but sound?"

🔊 Ultrasound Against the Foreign Body Response: What Sound Did to Microglia
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 16

BRIDGE-STIM 2027: Probing sensorimotor circuits and perception across species with microstimulation workshop, Pittsburgh, May 17-19, 2027 #BCI

BRIDGE-STIM Workshop
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(LinkedIn) The channel count arms race https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timir-datta-6b67886_the-channel-count-arms-race-neural-interfaces-share-7480637564358598657-zQbl/

The channel count arms race. Neural interfaces keep chasing higher channel counts, on the assumption that more channels mean more useful information. The truth is more nuanced: the returns are often… | Timir Datta
The channel count arms race. Neural interfaces keep chasing higher channel counts, on the assumption that more channels mean more useful information. The truth is more nuanced: the returns are often diminishing and application-dependent, while the costs to the system and to the tissue keep rising. 1. Every channel carries a systems cost. Each channel needs access to an analog front end, and every acquired channel burns power before any algorithm sees the signal. The AFE can consume a signifi…