{"id":652933,"date":"2010-02-03T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21449"},"modified":"2010-02-03T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:07:38","slug":"10-million-bounty-for-a-brain-computer-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652933","title":{"rendered":"$10 Million Bounty For A Brain-Computer Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Diamandis just held a workshop at MIT <a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/articles\/neuro\/bci-x-prize-time-it%E2%80%99s-inner-space\">discussing a $10 million &#8220;X-Prize&#8221; for building a brain-computer interface!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides the ability to communicate by thought, the article argues, a Brain-Computer Interface X Prize &#8220;will reward nothing less than a team that provides vision to the blind, new bodies to disabled people, and perhaps even a geographical &#8216;sixth sense&#8217; akin to a GPS iPhone app in the brain.&#8221; And one software engineer argues the technology could become commercially available within the next 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Diamandis just held a workshop at MIT discussing a $10 million &#8220;X-Prize&#8221; for building a brain-computer interface! Besides the ability to communicate by thought, the article argues, a Brain-Computer Interface X Prize &#8220;will reward nothing less than a team that provides vision to the blind, new bodies to disabled people, and perhaps even a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JRb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}