Lab leads effort to build optical & magnetic brain link
Mar 3, 2021
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Great tips for a quick lunch! One thing I often forget when eating out is checking my phone or laptop for display issues afterward. A quick fullblackscreenfullblackscreen test helps spot dead pixels before warranty expires, which is especially useful if you’re a photographer reviewing shots between meetings.
The $8 million Department of Defense follow-up funding for Rice’s minimally invasive optical and magnetic brain link stands out, especially because the actual interface work is so hard to convey beyond a single figure. For research communication across papers and press images, being able to create the same character in different scenes could help keep a visual identity consistent without making the science look generic. I’d be curious how the lab approaches explaining such precise neural interfaces to non-specialists.
Amazing to see how far brain interface research has come, wireless brain-to-brain communication is really mind-blowing stuff, kinda like track & field for the mind.
Work like this has a quiet problem: the science is legible to perhaps two hundred people worldwide and everybody else meets it through a single figure. When that figure is a stock photo of a glowing brain, an excellent result reads as generic. We build Image 2.5 Sunburst: give it a reference image plus a prompt and it generates or edits visuals that keep the same palette, lighting and framing across a set, so a lab can carry one recognisable illustration style through its papers, posts and press material without commissioning a designer each time.
The $8 million DARPA follow-up for minimally invasive optical and magnetic brain links is a compelling step toward direct brain-to-brain communication. It makes me wonder if an ai karaoke maker could eventually sync lyrics straight from neural signals, though that is probably decades away. The precision required for these interfaces is remarkable to think about.