Brio. Focus / Start Your Head with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) One rat brain 'talks' to another using electronic link. 28 February 2013Last updated at 10:33 ET By Jen Whyntie BBC Radio Science Unit Brain signals about completing a simple task were transmitted from one rat to another Scientists have connected the brains of lab rats, allowing one to communicate directly to another via cables.
Long-term wireless, implantable brain-computer interface in Pigs and Monkeys. Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface.
The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next. Inside there’s a li-ion battery, an inductive (wireless) charging loop, a chip that digitizes the signals from your brain, and an antenna for transmitting those neural spikes to a nearby computer. The BCI is connected to a small chip with 100 electrodes protruding from it, which, in this study, was embedded in the somatosensory cortex or motor cortex.