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Apple is embracing the world of brain computer interfaces, unveiling a new technology that one day could revolutionize how devices interact with their humans.

Apple is looking forward to a day, still some years away, when implants developed by Elon Musk’s Neuralink and its rivals receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Such implants, known as brain computer interfaces, have already been safely placed in a handful of patients.

Historically, computers interacted with their humans mechanically, using keyboards and mice. Smartphones introduced touch, a behavioral input, but still an observable physical movement. The new capability means Apple devices won’t need to see the user make specific movements, the devices can program user intentions using decoded brain signals.

Apple has worked on the new standard with Synchron, which makes a stent-like device that is implanted in a vein atop the brain’s motor cortex. The device called the Stentrode has electrodes that create brain signals. It translates the signals into thoughts and ultimately actions in the human.

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