{"id":21637,"date":"2018-08-31T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T21:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Fiber-optics-rather-than-wires-because-of-the-environment-of-the-implant"},"modified":"2018-08-31T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T21:28:03","slug":"fiber-optics-rather-than-wires-because-of-the-environment-of-the-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/08\/31\/fiber-optics-rather-than-wires-because-of-the-environment-of-the-implant\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber optics, rather than wires, because of the environment of the implant."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>Fiber optics, rather than wires, because of the environment of the implant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Judah Richardson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engineering researchers at the University of NSW Sydney have been granted almost $500,000 by the US Navy to develop chips that enable \u2018neural interfacing\u2019, or direct communication between brains and machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now one-way communication is the goal, but the researchers hope to enable two-way communication for feedback from artificial limbs or more complex input from computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team has already developed what they call \u201coptrodes\u201d &#8211; pixel-like sensors on a chip that pick up the brain\u2019s electrical signals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/us-navy-taps-unsw-to-develop-brain-machine-interface-511667\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/us-navy-taps-unsw-to-develop-brain-machine-interface-511667<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Fiber optics, rather than wires, because of the environment of the implant.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/08\/31\/fiber-optics-rather-than-wires-because-of-the-environment-of-the-implant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}