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Close up of hand wearing SpellRing device on thumb

Wearable ring translates sign language into text

Doctors performing eye surgery in operating room

Surgeons implant teeth in patients’ eyes to restore vision

Patient with paralysis uses mind to pilot virtual quadcopter

A close-up view of a green traffic light with an image of two walking lesbian girls at the center of Vienna, Austria.

Some of the world’s smartest traffic lights are getting smarter

Neuralink N1 Device breakdown component illustration

39% of electrodes work after second ‘successful’ human Neuralink implant

Concept art of MouthPad wearable medical device

New device enables tongue-controlled mouse cursor

mri scan of the brain

A new neural implant can translate brain activity in two languages

Neuralink N1 implant device breakdown

Neuralink seeks its next brain implant volunteer

Neuralink N1 implant device breakdown

Neuralink admits patient’s brain implant is partially ‘retracted’

Users wearing BCI cap to play video game

This cap is a big step towards universal, noninvasive brain-computer interfaces

Bladder sensor next to smartphone displaying its app

This implant will tell a smartphone app when you need to pee

Neuralink shows first human patient using brain implant to play online chess

In tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically associated with biologically inherited traits to physically conveyed communications.

Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages

Patient wearing a highly integrated bionic hand in between many others

Titanium-fused bone tissue connects this bionic hand directly to a patient’s nerves

Man with cerebral palsy drinking from RoboCup

College students invented an easy device for cerebral palsy patients to drink on their own

chatgpt shown on a mobile phone

ChatGPT can now see, hear, and talk to some users

A patient and a group of researchers working on tech that can help a person with ALS speak

How AI-powered brain implants are helping an ALS patient communicate

By Maddi Langweil

Patient with brain microchip implants atop head

First-of-its-kind AI brain implant surgery helped a man regain feeling in his hand

Air 4 All prototype wheelchair seat in airplane cabin

Prototype airline seat would make the skies friendlier to passengers in wheelchairs

silent speech-recognizing glasses

These glasses can pick up whispered commands

By Charlotte Hu