Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Brain-Computer Interface X Prize

H+ Magazine writes:

Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites recently rolled out SpaceShipTwo, a commercial passenger spaceship designed after the winning ship that captured the $10M Ansari X PRIZE for spaceflight in 2004. (...)

The latest X PRIZE, however, has nothing to do with the commercialization of outer space. The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) X PRIZE will reward nothing less than a team that provides vision to the blind, new bodies to disabled people, and perhaps event a geographical “sixth sense” akin to a GPS iPhone app in the brain.

[Thanks Sugar!]

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