Apple is exploring ways to allow users to control iPhones using neural signals from advanced brain implants, potentially aiding individuals with severe spinal cord injuries or diseases like ALS who cannot use their hands.
Apple is collaborating with Synchron to develop a new standard that enables Apple devices to detect user intentions from decoded brain signals without requiring specific movements.
Synchron has created a stent-like device called Stentrode that is implanted in a vein atop the brain's motor cortex and uses electrodes to read brain signals, allowing users like Mark Jackson, who has ALS, to control Apple devices.
Neuralink's brain computer interface implant and Apple's collaboration with Synchron represent advancements in this field, with Apple planning to release a new standard later this year for other developers to utilize.