Bionic Hand Powered by Thoughts Alone From: Medical Design Technology - 03/31/2015 A research team from the University of Houston has created an algorithm that allowed a man to grasp a bottle and other objects with a prosthetic hand, powered only by his thoughts. The technique, demonstrated with a 56-year-old man whose right hand had been amputated, uses non-invasive brain monitoring, capturing brain activity to determine what parts of the brain are involved in grasping an object. With that information, researchers created a computer program, or brain-machine interface (BMI), that harnessed the subject's intentions and allowed him to successfully grasp objects, including a water bottle and a credit card. The subject grasped the selected objects 80 percent of the time using a high-tech bionic hand fitted to the amputee's stump. Read the entire article at: http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/03/bionic-hand-powered-thoughts-alone Links: Researchers Build Brain-Machine Interface to Control Prosthetic Hand http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2015/March/0331BionicHand http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2015/04/researchers-build-brain-machine-interface-control-prosthetic-hand http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2015/03/researchers-build-brain-machine-interface-control-prosthetic-hand Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal http://www.ece.uh.edu/faculty/contreras-vidal UH Non-Invasive Brain Machine Interface Lab http://uhbmi.ee.uh.edu/ Brain-Machine Interface Controls Prosthetic Hand http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/mdb/tech-briefs/21931 Related: Professor Teams Up with Local Artist to Study Aesthetic Experiences in the Brain (with video 6:58) https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201411/video-professor-teams-local-artist-study-aesthetic-experiences-brain