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Another first look: brain-computer interface helps depression sufferers.
You've seen @elonmusk's company @neuralink "jack in" a human being. But that's just one approach to brain-computer interfaces, here's another from @merongribetz's new company https://t.co/h1sLFPhzkt
"A digital pill for the mind," they call it.
What is it? It's a little device that gets surgically implanted under the surface of your skin, but does not touch the brain, like the Neuralink device does, which makes it a far safer procedure for a patient to undergo.
Also a lot cheaper to do (Meron told me it should be less than $10,000 to have done, where a Neuralink-style surgery has risk of death and costs far more).
Fun, I recorded this in my house and my autistic son joined the conversation in the background at one point.
You might remember Meron from his previous company, Meta Augmented Reality (which he started long before Mark Zuckerberg got the idea for renaming Facebook to).
InnerCosmos comes at the brain quite differently than the Neuralink, which puts thousands of "wires" directly touching the brain. This focuses stimulation on a specific part of the brain, which controls depression in humans.
Meron lays out how this kind of device can be expanded to other kinds of brain-computer interfaces to do other things and shows how the device's AI-heavy software can be upgraded to do more in the future.
Hope it helps many people deal with their depression in a far better way than the drug therapies used today.
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