It might soon be “game over” for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI and XR for Forbes. At CES 2026, LumiMind presented its brand new closed-loop EEG sleep ...

Over the past several decades, coordinated investment at both central and local levels has propelled China’s research in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) from niche experimentation into a strategic ...

China’s remarkable advancements in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology are setting the stage for the nation to shift the balance in AI and human thought. We are heading into a time when you ...

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and ...

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A team at the Technical University of Munich's TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain‐computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down. The five‐hour procedure was the first of its ...

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...

Shock therapy, better known as Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), sends electricity into the brain to induce seizures in depressed patients who don’t respond to other treatments. In many such cases, ECT ...