Apple lays groundwork for iPhone brain control technology

In a press release this morning, Apple announced its suite of new accessibility features coming to the iPhone later this year. This includes Accessibility Nutrition Labels on the App Store, a new Magnifier app for Mac, and more. A new report from The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+ link) today dives deeper into another accessibility breakthrough Apple is developing: the ability to control your iPhone with your brain. According to the report, Apple is working on this technology such that third parties can take advantage of it. The report specifically calls attention to Synchron, a company developing a device called the Stentrode. The Stentrode is a “stent-like device that is implanted in a vein atop the brain’s motor cortex” with electrodes that read brain signals. Since 2019, the Stentrode has been implanted in 10 people. Through its work, Apple is developing ways for Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) to translate those brain signals into the ability to select, control, and manipula ... Read full article.