COLORADO: Colorado expanded its privacy law yesterday (Apr 17) to include brain data gathered by the booming array of gadgets people use for feedback about sleep, fitness, sports, and lifestyle.
Your tech devices want to read your brain. What could go wrong? Dalvin Brown Ramses Alcaide has spent over a decade thinking about thinking. As a PhD student at the University of Michigan in 2015, he developed a brain-computer interface that would allow people to control software and physical objects with their thoughts. Today, that interface is behind plans by a Boston-based start-up, Neurable, to begin shipping a set of brain-sensing headphones to let you know when you’re poised for peak productivity. Using your thoughts to make things happen in the real world was once a thing of science fiction. Now, it’s moving into reality, and Neurable’s interface is just one of the products companies are trying to develop that would usher in a consumer revolution in electronics.
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