[thatjoeoverthr]

Has anyone else noticed this is sort of a permanent story? I’ve read it as news verbatim at least once a year since the 90s. It’s the “Russian bombers intercepted” of medical science. This article is better than most, acknowledging prior work but only to a few years.

[icoder]

Not sure if relevant but it's good to distinguish techniques that are in the end based on muscle activity, which, even if the tiniest ones around the eye, give VERY strong electrical signals compared to brain activity. That's what basically makes the 'consumer variants' tick as well.

This article seems to be actually, entirely, and directly based on brain activity.

[burrows]

Are you sure it’s the same story?

Or are we seeing reports of incremental improvements to technologies for communicating with locked-in people.

[AlwaysRock]

There is a difference between using a brain implant and other devices like eye trackers and some type of muscle translator.

I've seen a lot of the latter. I don't think I've ever seen the former.