China issues first industry standard for brain-computer interface medical devices technode.com/2025/09/17/c... 我国第一项脑机接口医疗器械标准发布 www.ithome.com/0/883/421.htm #BCI #NeuroTech

It looks like Phosphoenix www.phosphoenix.nl has pulled away from visual cortical prosthesis development in view of competition from Neuralink Blindsight & ReVision Implant, and is now instead targeting the #LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) for a visual prosthesis. #BCI

(YouTube, Chinese w/o captions but graphical English subtitles) Blind patient treated with ZM-02 optogenetic gene therapy www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFO... Zhongmou Therapeutics; #RP #blindness #optogenetics

ChatGPT: "Here's a direct, technical, and respectful argument you might present to Elon Musk to explain why the Neuralink "Blindsight" brain implant is unlikely to restore meaningful vision in people born blind" chatgpt.com/share/681baf...

Example soundscape sequence for a virtual reality scene that shows a path lined with pillars, next approaching a wall with a gate, and with a sphere and cube behind the wall www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6l... Use stereo headphones.

A deep learning framework for predicting functional visual performance in bionic eye users www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Static or temporal? Semantic scene simplification to aid wayfinding in immersive simulations of bionic vision arxiv.org/abs/2507.10813

(2024) Visual neuroprostheses for impaired human nervous system: State-of-the-art and future outlook onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/... #BCI #NeuroTech

Neurons and Pixels www.neurotechreports.com/pages/publis... by James Cavuoto on Neuralink Blindsight and the graveyard of commercial failures: Optobionics, Retina Implant, Second Sight, Pixium Vision and others.

Bayesian optimization of cortical neuroprosthetic vision using perceptual feedback iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... "The challenge in cortical neuroprosthetic vision is determining the optimal, safe stimulation patterns to evoke the desired light perceptions (‘phosphenes’) in blind individuals."

How does the brain fill in what's missing? Pattern completion pushes visual cortex into "seeing" what is not there. Great to see this out, congrats to the authors on this impressive work! #neuroskyence

Multitarget neurostimulation of the deep brain: clinical opportunities, challenges, and emerging technologies iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... There's more than electrode arrays in the future of #BCI #NeuroTech for treating medical conditions.

Click-baity title: Your camera sensor is mostly blind, but that could be about to change www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... "Dutch start-up #Eyeo has secured €15 million in seed funding to develop new image sensor technology"

[OT] Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech www.reuters.com/business/med... Still more talent will likely move to Europe now as the US fosters a brain drain.

(YouTube) This is how Neuralink built a human head for surgical practice www.youtube.com/watch?v=evdI... Very helpful in preparing for a motor cortex implant. Will it also be realistic enough for practicing pushing the occipital lobes aside and such for Neuralink Blindsight? #BCI

HUN-REN RCNS and its consortium receive prestigious European funding for the first human testing of a prosthesis designed to restore vision www.ttk.hun-ren.hu/en/recent-ne... with ReVision Implant; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Early blind user of The vOICe vision BCI today: "This past weekend I went exploring some caves using The vOICe. I used the Android app since I had it already loaded on my phone, and there was no service once inside."

Should the Neuralink Blindsight Informed Consent Form for a brain implant mention noninvasive alternatives such as The vOICe vision BCI? #BCI #ethics #NeuroEthics #blind #blindness

#Multisensory vs. #unisensory learning: how they shape effective connectivity networks subserving unimodal and multimodal integration www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... "cross-modal training alters significantly the effective connectivity networks in all three modalities"; #crossmodal

(YouTube) Think different: If I ask you to visualize an apple, can you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMB... See things differently through mental imagery

Supramodal and modality-specific neural information supports multi-feature prediction errors across cortical levels doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... predictive coding, #multisensory #perception

WAChRs are excitatory opsins sensitive to indoor lighting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @gottapatchemall.bsky.social et al., Science Corp.; more info at bsky.app/profile/gott... retinal implant

Just a reminder that what you experience in the U.S. right now is EXACTLY how the NSDAP takeover in Germany took place. It's like they used it as their direct instructions. Hope you are all very aware about this... Greetings from Germany.

Skoltech: Mathematical model of memory suggests 7 senses are optimal www.skoltech.ru/en/news/math... The critical dimension of memory engrams and an optimal number of senses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineering infrared light detection in blind human retina using ultrasensitive human TRPV1 channels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #BCI #NeuroTech

Visual image reconstruction from brain activity via latent representation www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... by @ykamit.bsky.social et al.; mental imagery, #neuroscience

Are there any reports of unilateral aphantasia? e.g. people who report being able to imagine things in the right hemifield, but not the left one?

Vivani Medical announces record date for spin-off of #Cortigent neuromodulation subsidiary to shareholders www.globenewswire.com/news-release... $CRGT, Orion brain implant (but I expect them to wind down work toward a visual prosthesis for the blind); #BCI #NeuroTech

How tree shrews see the world - A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #vision

Auditory augmented reality for wellbeing www.intechopen.com/online-first... #AR #AAR

Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... by @seeingxie.bsky.social et al. via @stphtphsn.bsky.social; could (neuromodulation of) recurrence extend to auditory areas? www.nature.com/articles/nn1...

PDF of ChatGPT's answer at www.seeingwithsound.com/archive/chat... A blind user of The vOICe after reading ChatGPT's analysis further stressed the importance of ensuring long-term support with the possibility to change or upgrade hardware.

"Blindsight would probably require a separate study from PRIME and CONVOY. As such, Neuralink might need FDA approval in the United States to start human trials for Blindsight." FDA's breakthrough device designation alone does not suffice for that purpose. www.teslarati.com/neuralink-bl...

Our coming plutocracy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wet...

(YouTube, 2024) Learning to see again with a bionic eye www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnrL... University of California Television (UCTV); #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

To ChatGPT 5: Will The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind disrupt the market for invasive visual prostheses such as the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? chatgpt.com/share/68c330... "Short answer: yes - if a few practical hurdles are nailed"

Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference (in mice) www.nature.com/articles/s41... "neurons that encode sensory inference are specialized for receiving and locally broadcasting top-down information"

Pre-processing visual scenes for retinal prosthesis systems: A comprehensive review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Future research should address "the distorted and confusing nature of phosphene perception"; #BCI #NeuroTech

Encoding visual stimuli by striatal neurons (in mice) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "Although visual object encoding is considered a cortical attribute, subcortical areas also contain visual processing circuits."

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "Extensive work has shown that the visual cortex is reactivated during mental imagery"; #neuroscience

(video) NOVA: Artificial vision using brain implants www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvb... on the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). #BCI #blindness

Space Tango partners with LambdaVision on NASA Phase II InSPA Award to advance artificial retina manufacturing in space spacetango.com/latest/press... via @lambdavision.bsky.social; protein-based retinal implant, #RP #AMD

Archived PDF: The vOICe or Neuralink Blindsight ia601000.us.archive.org/1/items/neur... September 14, 2025

WIRED: OpenAI ramps up robotics work in race toward #AGI www.wired.com/story/openai... hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids. To cover up recent lack of progress in #AI?

Neuralink co-founder Suh says brain chips will remove life constraints biz.chosun.com/en/en-scienc... Interview with DJ Seo, Gangnam-style, err... Gangnam District, Seoul. Neuralink Blindsight goal of clinical trials in 2026. #BCI #NeuroTech

Atypical low-frequency and high-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic audiovisual speech in adults with dyslexia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "While the control group showed consistent beta- and low gamma-band phase entrainment, this was not observed for the dyslexic group."

Invasive BCIs could be next in line.

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

NVDA 2025.3 screen reader for the blind released (Microsoft Windows) www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-20...

Exploring cortical connectivity of visual prosthesis users: resting-state study www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/81... "This study reveals significant changes in cortical connectivity before UEA [Utah Electrode Array] implantation and after its explantation." #BCI #NeuroTech #blind #blindness #neuroscience