03/25/2005: 
Technologica
Plug It In!
or, Someone Finally Listened To Me
from Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems
Cyberkinetics' systems provide the ability to sense, transmit, analyze and apply the language of neurons in both short and long-term settings. Our award winning technology was originally developed and sold as research products to neuroscientists around the world. Today, we are broadening the application of our technology to develop clinical products...
The BrainGate Neural Interface System is currently the subject of a pilot clinical trial being conducted under an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the FDA. The system is designed to restore functionality for a limited, immobile group of severely motor-impaired individuals. It is expected that people using the BrainGate System will employ a personal computer as the gateway to a range of self-directed activities. These activities may extend beyond typical computer functions (e.g., communication) to include the control of objects in the environment such as a telephone, a television and lights.
from a UPI article:
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems has developed BrainGate, a product aimed at enabling quadriplegics to do things like surf the Web, write e-mails, play video games and operate TV remotes and telephones just by thinking.
"We can take someone's thought and put it on a screen" said Tim Surgenor, chief executive of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems...
