There has been a lot of activity in brain-computer interfaces to help such people.
Those independent claims are clearly focused on general computer interfaces, though, not specific implementations.
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He says the look of the new Windows system marks a significant step forward in computer interfaces.
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At that time, she estimates, there were about five labs working on the same topic of brain-computer interfaces.
Morgenthaler makes a good case that Siri represents the third revolution in human-computer interfaces that Jobs perfected and popularized.
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Already, brain-computer interfaces can enable totally paralysed people with locked-in syndrome to communicate.
Such brain-computer interfaces require that the user wear an EEG cap to measure brain signals, but setting one up is very complicated.
All computer interfaces with Knight will be shutdown with no new orders, both by phone or electronic, being accepted at this time.
This team is leading the Walk Again Project, an international consortium of research centers dedicated to creating brain-computer interfaces to restore movement.
Miguel Nicolelis, a pioneer of research into brain-computer interfaces at Duke University in North Carolina, worked on the experiments with scientists at the Safra International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal in his native Brazil.
He's also been working to bring the technology closer to reality in the years since the film's release with his company, Oblong Industries, but he's hardly alone in developing human-computer interfaces that have drawn comparisons to the movie.
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Currently, these brain-computer interfaces are rudimentary.
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The next-generation of computer operating-system interfaces from Microsoft and Netscape is dispensing with most metaphors in favour of something that looks more like the typical text-and-image Web article than like the Mac's faux office.
Engineers are not asking for the computer code that drives the interfaces, merely for the means to talk to them.
He later worked on 3-D graphics at gamemaker Atari, compact computing systems at Apple Computer and easy-to-use interfaces at Disney.
Wildseed was the creation of Eric Engstrom , a former Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) executive who was one of the principals behind DirectX, a series of programming interfaces widely used to create computer games.
Many of these new storage interfaces are based on the PCIe computer interface.
At the recent Storage Developers Conference (SNW) in Santa Clara, CA several companies participating in the SNIA SSSI (Solid State Storage Initiative) gave a vision of future flash memory storage interfaces, based upon the PCIe computer interface.
Being a young industry, there are few tools, procedures or standard data formats or service interfaces in place to guarantee data, computer application and service portability.
To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
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These new interfaces will lead to fundamental changes in the way that computer systems are controlled using operating system and general software.
Most modern music interfaces aim to bring the performer as far outside of the computer as possible, allowing him or her to interact with the hardware without touching a mouse or keyboard.
Advocates have traditionally countered that pen interfaces can be operated using one hand, freeing the other one to cradle the computer or hold the handheld.
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