- Synchron is part of an emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry.
- The system is implanted through the blood vessels and allows patients to operate technology using only their minds.
- “It helps them engage in ways that we take for granted,” Synchron CEO Tom Oxley said.
Bezos and Gates join monetary forces with the original funders of Australian-based Synchron, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Department of Defense (DoD).
So, this is a project of the U.S. Military?
“I’ve seen moments between patient and partner, or patient and spouse, where it’s incredibly joyful and empowering to have regained an ability to be a little bit more independent than before,” Synchron CEO Tom Oxley told CNBC in an interview. “
It helps them engage in ways that we take for granted.”
A BCI is a system that deciphers brain signals and translates them into commands for external technologies.
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