Through this technology, researchers have demonstrated that patients can move a computer cursor by thinking and manipulate a robotic arm as if it were their own.

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MotionTools and the Air Mouse app enable a presenter to turn their computer's cursor into a highlighter, laser pointer or pen.

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If they succeed, the computer will move a cursor up or down a screen placed in front of their eyes.

ECONOMIST: Neurology

GIFs give the illusion of animation, and creative entries include water draining and refilling a mason jar, a cursor moving and clicking on a laptop computer screen, and continuously morphing geometric shapes.

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But experiments using EEG have allowed people to do simple things like pressing buttons on a computer screen by moving a cursor and clicking it, and operating the flippers on a pinball machine.

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With the help of algorithms and filters to smooth out anomalous signals, the computer can translate those intentions into instructions that can move a cursor or a wheelchair.

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