DARPA Program Seeks Neural Implant for Brain-Drain Communication
From: Power Electronics - 02/11/2016

A new DARPA program, Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), aims to develop
an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal
resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the
digital world. The interface would serve as a translator, converting between
the electrochemical language used by neurons in the brain and the ones and
zeros that constitute the language of information technology. The goal is to
achieve this communications link in a biocompatible device no larger than one
cubic centimeter in size, roughly the volume of two nickels stacked back to
back.

Among the program's potential applications are devices that could compensate
for deficits in sight or hearing by feeding digital auditory or visual
information into the brain at a resolution and experiential quality far
higher than is possible with current technology.

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Link:
Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide
http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-01-19