Meet the Removable Brain-Computer Implant - CNET

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While some wearable gadgets try to read brainwaves, achieving accuracy requires going to the source. Implanting a brain-computer interface, which converts brain signals directly into control inputs for digital devices, is often considered a permanent procedure. The devices involved are typically so difficult or impractical to remove that it’s better to just leave them in place for the remainder of a patient’s life and handle any future upgrades at the software level.

Precision Neuroscience thinks there’s another way.

We visited the company’s headquarters in New York to get a look at its brain-computer interface, which is designed to sit on the brain’s surface rather than be implanted inside it, and has been successfully removed from the skulls of people who have...

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