Brain-computer interface easily slips in and out of ear canal

cyu@sh.itjust.worksbanned from community to Technology@lemmy.world – 120 points – Spiral brain-computer interface slips into ear canal with no loss of hearing
medicalxpress.com

research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.

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The babel fish!

I’ve wanted one of those for so so long! Being able to communicate and understand everyone would contribute so much to bringing the world together

Honestly, we're already not that far off, aside from the brain computer interface.

We have many very good translation tools these days, and they work decently well. You can even use it to translate text in the real world via the camera

So, this thing is only entering the external ear canal. Its not getting to the brain. Not only is the eardrum an airtight barrier that only works if its air tight, even if you made it past it theres a lot of organs and bone structure, it doesnt continue as a tunnel into the brain.

This reminds me of Nanonics in The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton

I would much rather having something like this than have a chunk of my skull removed like Musk is planning. I wonder how the performance would compare though, actual probes in the brain are going to be way more reliable than just picking up EMF or whatever this does.