INNOVATIONS

OTHER MIND - READING TECH

NEURALINK

Elon Musk’s much-vaunted neurotech start-up requires implantable probes that work as a brain-computer interface. The actual technology remains secretive, but in April 2021 the company demonstrated a chimp using Neuralink to play a game of Pong.

OPENWATER

This start-up combines electro-optical technology, lasers and holographies to produce non-invasive imagery of the brain, as well as other organs or tumours, in incredible detail.

NEURAL DUST

Sometimes described as a Fitbit for the nervous system, neural dust refers to tiny implantable sensors that might pave the way for ‘neuroceuticals’. These are diagnostic or therapeutic technologies that work by remotely activating dust-sized devices in the body.

NEUROSCIENCE

The injectable nanosensor that will one day read your thoughts

Mind-controlled machines, minus the wires-in-your-brain bit

A new kind of injectable biosensor might one day be able to read your thoughts or let you communicate using nothing but your mind.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz,