MEDTECH

🔮 Start-up Synchron Develops Telekinesis

Kinda.

Whilst you won't be boomeranging lightsabers like a Jedi, or flinging furniture like Matilda. You can now turn on the TV, text your partner, and feed your dog… without lifting a finger.

What’s the catch 🧐? 
Well… You’ll need Synchron to install a device in your brain, stream your thoughts through a wirelessly connected interface, and wear an 800-gram Apple Vision Pro on your face.

And also—you have to be quadriplegic. That part’s kind of important.

At the heart of the company's technology lies the Sentrode. This is a stent-like device covered in electrodes. This allows for the Brain-Computer Interface(BCI) to be implanted through the superior sagittal sinus to the motor cortex and capture neural signals. All without need for open surgery. Neat.

Now combine these signals with eye movement tracking from the Vision Pro and Nvidia's Holoscan to train AI on your thought patterns —and you’ve got a seriously innovative bit of tech.

It’s the first step in achieving their dream of a brain-based foundational model– An AI trained not on pirated ebooks, but you. And all the pirated ebooks you’ve read.

If this all sounds a bit too Black Mirror for you, relax. You see, in a study published in JAMA neurology, although they successfully demonstrated safety and efficacy. Their sample size was just four patients. And the follow up period was also only 12 months. So we won’t know if the implant will remain stable or get rejected like the F6 trying into cardiology training.

So all in all? Good try, Synchron. Your not their just quite yet, 
But hey–you’re ahead of Elon and Neurolink!
And that counts for something ✊

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