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Should the Neuralink Blindsight Informed Consent Form for a brain implant mention noninvasive alternatives such as The vOICe vision BCI? #BCI #ethics #NeuroEthics #blind #blindness
(Bengali) পেশায় সাইবার বিশেষজ্ঞ, নেশা ছবি তোলা! না দেখেও কী ভাবে ছবি তোলেন দিল্লির খ্যাতনামী জন্মান্ধ আলোকচিত্রী? www.anandabazar.com/photogallery... শ্রবণশক্তি ব্যবহার করে দুনিয়াকে দেখার সুযোগ পাওয়া যায় ‘দ্য ভয়েস’-এর সাহায্যে। #The_vOICe
পেশায় সাইবার বিশেষজ্ঞ, নেশা ছবি তোলা! না দেখেও কী ভাবে ছবি তোলেন দিল্লির খ্যাতনামী জন্মান্ধ আলোকচিত্রী?
জন্মান্ধ। তবু ক্যামেরাবন্দি করেছেন পৃথিবীর নানা প্রান্তের দৃশ্য। ইচ্ছেশক্তির জেরেই অসম্ভবকে সম্ভব করেছেন দিল্লির প্রণব লাল।
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December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
(Bengali) পেশায় সাইবার বিশেষজ্ঞ, নেশা ছবি তোলা! না দেখেও কী ভাবে ছবি তোলেন দিল্লির খ্যাতনামী জন্মান্ধ আলোকচিত্রী? www.anandabazar.com/photogallery... শ্রবণশক্তি ব্যবহার করে দুনিয়াকে দেখার সুযোগ পাওয়া যায় ‘দ্য ভয়েস’-এর সাহায্যে। #The_vOICe
The PRIMA retinal implant of Max Hodak's US company Science Corp (currently aimed at AMD) may not stand a chance against the optogenetic approach of Chinese company Zhongmou Therapeutics (currently aimed at RP)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFO... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgvz... #NeuroTech
Hear our patient treated with ZM-02 optogenetic gene therapy
YouTube video by Alvin Luk
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December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The PRIMA retinal implant of Max Hodak's US company Science Corp (currently aimed at AMD) may not stand a chance against the optogenetic approach of Chinese company Zhongmou Therapeutics (currently aimed at RP)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFO... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgvz... #NeuroTech
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Russia explores neurotechnology at scale beyond Neuralink newsgab.com/russia-explo... on Neuralink vs Neiry - what could possibly go wrong? #BCI #NeuroTech #NeuroEthics
Russia Explores Neurotechnology At Scale Beyond Neuralink - Newsgab
Russia is advancing invasive neurotechnology on a scale unmatched by Neuralink, pushing the boundaries of AI and innovation.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Russia explores neurotechnology at scale beyond Neuralink newsgab.com/russia-explo... on Neuralink vs Neiry - what could possibly go wrong? #BCI #NeuroTech #NeuroEthics
Serial entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on early-stage building in neurotech www.neurofounders.co/post/serial-... #Insellar #BCI #NeuroTech
December 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Serial entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on early-stage building in neurotech www.neurofounders.co/post/serial-... #Insellar #BCI #NeuroTech
Comparing the characteristics of hallucinations and mental imagery: a large cross-sectional study in the general population www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Comparing the characteristics of hallucinations and mental imagery: a large cross-sectional study in the general population
Hallucinations (HAs), the perceptual experiences that occur without external stimuli, are classically associated with psychiatric disorders, but also …
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December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Comparing the characteristics of hallucinations and mental imagery: a large cross-sectional study in the general population www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Time-to-collision estimation with age-related macular degeneration using visual and auditory cues: which cues are most important? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AMD
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December 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Time-to-collision estimation with age-related macular degeneration using visual and auditory cues: which cues are most important? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AMD
After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/a... by @connieloizos.bsky.social (heading for the Borg, Silicon Valley people indeed often sound as confident as LLMs, but are less sycophantic and less easily swayed through arguments)
After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder | TechCrunch
"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."
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December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/a... by @connieloizos.bsky.social (heading for the Borg, Silicon Valley people indeed often sound as confident as LLMs, but are less sycophantic and less easily swayed through arguments)
Seeing with sound in safe virtual environments: A walk-in-place #VR #training system for users with visual impairment using the vOICe algorithm dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... "early exploration of a platform for evaluating sensory substitution techniques." #The_vOICe #VRST25
Seeing With Sound in Safe Virtual Environments: A Walk-In-Place VR Training System for Users With Visual Impairment Using the vOICe Algorithm | Proceedings of the 2025 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Re...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Seeing with sound in safe virtual environments: A walk-in-place #VR #training system for users with visual impairment using the vOICe algorithm dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... "early exploration of a platform for evaluating sensory substitution techniques." #The_vOICe #VRST25
Webinar Feb 18 2026: How AI is transforming the blindness community www.phoenix.gov/calendar/equ... "Emerging AI research explores brain-computer interfaces and advanced sensory substitution, which could one day restore partial vision or provide new ways to perceive the environment."
Webinar: How AI Is Transforming the Blindness Community
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December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Webinar Feb 18 2026: How AI is transforming the blindness community www.phoenix.gov/calendar/equ... "Emerging AI research explores brain-computer interfaces and advanced sensory substitution, which could one day restore partial vision or provide new ways to perceive the environment."
Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: the TTC-AMD study journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: The TTC-AMD study
Little is known about whether and to what degree people with different amounts of visual impairment rely on hearing instead of vision for mobility, particularly in judgments of collision. We measured ...
journals.plos.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: the TTC-AMD study journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Russian ELVIS V brain implant for restoring vision elvis-tech.ru/elvisv_en "After implantation, patients undergo a rehabilitation course, which may last 6 months and include activities to teach the new 'vision' from simple to complex." #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
ELVIS V - electronic vision of the future
Electronic vision of the future - neuroimplant ELVIS V
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December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Russian ELVIS V brain implant for restoring vision elvis-tech.ru/elvisv_en "After implantation, patients undergo a rehabilitation course, which may last 6 months and include activities to teach the new 'vision' from simple to complex." #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
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The ethical frontiers of brain-computer interfaces medcitynews.com/2025/12/the-... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social; #BCI #NeuroTech
The Ethical Frontiers of Brain-Computer Interfaces - MedCity News
The challenge is not just to minimize harm, but to make choices that expand human flourishing rather than reduce us to more efficient workers or more predictable consumers.
medcitynews.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The ethical frontiers of brain-computer interfaces medcitynews.com/2025/12/the-... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social; #BCI #NeuroTech
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping www.nature.com/articles/s41... The vOICe
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping www.nature.com/articles/s41... The vOICe
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal correspondences."
#noninvasive #BCI
Russia is testing brain-implanted pigeons as remote-controlled "#biodrones" www.techspot.com/news/110457-... "These pigeons carry solar backpacks and brain implants"; #BCI #NeuroTech
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Russia is testing brain-implanted pigeons as remote-controlled "#biodrones" www.techspot.com/news/110457-... "These pigeons carry solar backpacks and brain implants"; #BCI #NeuroTech
Electrotactile characteristics of rectified random noise stimulation (r-tRNS) on the forehead: a comparison with tDCS ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... "r-tRNS has the potential to be effectively utilized in applications requiring electrotactile perception, such as sensory substitution"
Electrotactile Characteristics of Rectified Random Noise Stimulation (r-tRNS) on the Forehead: A Comparison with tDCS
Electrical stimulation on the forehead has been applied in various technologies, and understanding the electrotactile characteristics induced by stimulation is essential for ensuring safe and efficien...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Electrotactile characteristics of rectified random noise stimulation (r-tRNS) on the forehead: a comparison with tDCS ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... "r-tRNS has the potential to be effectively utilized in applications requiring electrotactile perception, such as sensory substitution"
(YouTube) Neuralink overview, Fall 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJdg... No real news about the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant. #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Neuralink Overview, Fall 2025
YouTube video by Neuralink
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December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
(YouTube) Neuralink overview, Fall 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJdg... No real news about the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant. #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
The ethical frontiers of brain-computer interfaces medcitynews.com/2025/12/the-... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social; #BCI #NeuroTech
The Ethical Frontiers of Brain-Computer Interfaces - MedCity News
The challenge is not just to minimize harm, but to make choices that expand human flourishing rather than reduce us to more efficient workers or more predictable consumers.
medcitynews.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The ethical frontiers of brain-computer interfaces medcitynews.com/2025/12/the-... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social; #BCI #NeuroTech
#TapNav: Adaptive spatiotactile screen readers for tactually guided touchscreen interactions for blind and low vision people dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
TapNav: Adaptive Spatiotactile Screen Readers for Tactually Guided Touchscreen Interactions for Blind and Low Vision People | Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Tec...
Screen readers are audio-based software that Blind and Low Vision (BLV) people use
to interact with computing devices, such as tablets and smartphones. Although this
technology has significantly impro...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#TapNav: Adaptive spatiotactile screen readers for tactually guided touchscreen interactions for blind and low vision people dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Consensus AI: Why will The vOICe sensory substitution defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision? consensus.app/search/why-w... #BCI #NeuroTech
Why will The vOICe sensory substitution defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision? - Consensus
Restoring vision in blind individuals can be approached through invasive brain implants (like Neuralink or visual prostheses) or non-invasive sensory substitution devices (SSDs) such as The vOICe, whi...
consensus.app
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Consensus AI: Why will The vOICe sensory substitution defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision? consensus.app/search/why-w... #BCI #NeuroTech
Neuralink Blindsight brain implant patient registry for a visual prosthesis neuralink.com/trials/visua... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Neuralink Blindsight brain implant patient registry for a visual prosthesis neuralink.com/trials/visua... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @nickhedger.bsky.social @tknapen.bsky.social et al.; more information in the thread bsky.app/profile/tkna... #neuroscience
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @nickhedger.bsky.social @tknapen.bsky.social et al.; more information in the thread bsky.app/profile/tkna... #neuroscience
The #AI future is now all about the #edge www.eetimes.com/the-ai-futur...
The vOICe's AI compatibility mode for AI scene description is ready for that www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm#... by offering a general model-agnostic interface.
#blindness #AI #EdgeAI #NeuroAI #BCI
The vOICe's AI compatibility mode for AI scene description is ready for that www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm#... by offering a general model-agnostic interface.
#blindness #AI #EdgeAI #NeuroAI #BCI
The AI Future is Now All About the Edge - EE Times
Edge AI is set to overtake data centers as the real driver of AI value. It is not just a buzzword anymore—it will be the next battleground in silicon
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December 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The #AI future is now all about the #edge www.eetimes.com/the-ai-futur...
The vOICe's AI compatibility mode for AI scene description is ready for that www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm#... by offering a general model-agnostic interface.
#blindness #AI #EdgeAI #NeuroAI #BCI
The vOICe's AI compatibility mode for AI scene description is ready for that www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm#... by offering a general model-agnostic interface.
#blindness #AI #EdgeAI #NeuroAI #BCI
Cortigent hopes to raise nearly $15 million through IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... "there are about 82,000 Americans who could potentially benefit from the Orion system"; #blindness #BCI #NeuroTech $CRGT
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Cortigent hopes to raise nearly $15 million through IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... "there are about 82,000 Americans who could potentially benefit from the Orion system"; #blindness #BCI #NeuroTech $CRGT
(LinkedIn) #Paradromics: "A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world." www.linkedin.com/posts/paradr...
#bci #technology #biotech #augmentedreality #virtualreality #arvr #braincomputerinterfaces | Paradromics
Our daily mission is to restore independence for those living with severe motor impairment. But as our CEO Matt Angle and CSO Reema Khan (Green Sands Equity) discuss at the OPEN Silicon Valley Annual ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
(LinkedIn) #Paradromics: "A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world." www.linkedin.com/posts/paradr...