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NEO Brain Computer Interface (BCI)
The NEO brain-computer interface (BCI) sits under the skull but rests on the brain's protective outer layer. Developed by researchers at Tsinghua University and Shanghai-based Neuracle Technology, that design could make it less invasive than other competing implants (see Neuralink will land a chip in your brain).
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Epi-dural electrode array are implanted in the skull above the functional localized area, collecting local field potentials, which makes neural tissues intact. The chips buried in the skull enable wireless power induction and signal transmission, which makes a no-battery implantation.
Science fiction writer Iain Banks described a similar device in his 2010 novel Surface Detail; he called it a neural lace:
Whatever it was, it looked like a small bunch of very fine wires, their colour a sort of dull matt silver with a hint of blue. Scrunch it up, he thought, and you’d have something like a pebble; something so small you could probably swallow it...
“Gentlemen, please,” Veppers said calmly, before Jasken could reply. He looked at the doctor. “As simply as you can, Sulbazghi, for the non-technically minded; what the hell is this thing?”
“It’s a neural lace,” the doctor said, sounding exhausted...Only after she’d done it did Lededje realise she’d put one hand to the back of her head as soon as Sensia had mentioned a lace. Her fingertips moved through the soft, short fair hair covering her scalp, tracing the contours of her own skull.
She’d been offered another neural lace, before she’d been woken up in this new body. She’d said no, and was still unsure why she’d made that choice....
“Haven’t the foggiest idea what it was doing there,” Huen said, handing the lace to the outstretched manipule field of the drone, which teased it out to its maximum extent. The remains of the lace took on the rough shape of a brain. Veppers caught a glimpse and found the sight oddly unsettling.
See also the implanted transceiver cap from Blood on the Sun (1942) by Hal K. Wells.
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