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Startup Develops Headphones That Let Users Control Phones With Thoughts

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Robert Scoble#447
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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer#447inTech

San Francisco comes through again.

Spent a delightful hour with @khal_ism who is building a new brain computer interface that you will hear a lot about later this year.

A new kind of headphone that listens to your brain.

Very limited at first. It will let you “think” of 10 words.

Like “LinkedIn” and then LinkedIn will open on your phone.

Will let you tag things. Like “remember” will tag a moment you are having.

He is aiming at shipping next year.

I wrote eight books about decade-long change coming. My first was about social media before this site were are all on started.

If I write another it will be BCIs. Have a list of neuroscientists and builders working in this field.

I already asked @elonmusk for a full neuralink. He said they aren’t ready for regular people yet, but told me “cognitive enhancements” are coming in three years.

OpenAI, Meta, and others are working on them too.

But now I know a lot more about how they work.

Thanks X. This morning when I woke up I had no idea who I would meet. Another meeting in a few minutes.

Can’t do this in most other places in the world. He just moved to San Francisco five days ago to build his company. This morning I wrote that I had the day free, and already an amazing day. Plus the weather is so amazing today.

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

San Francisco comes through again.

Spent a delightful hour with @khal_ism who is building a new brain computer interface that you will hear a lot about later this year.

I wrote eight books about decade-long change coming. My first was about social media before this site were are all on started.

If I write another it will be BCIs. Have a list of neuroscientists and builders working in this field. It will be a trend of new things coming over next decade.

I already asked @elonmusk for a full neuralink. He said they aren’t ready for regular people yet, but told me “cognitive enhancements” are coming in three years.

OpenAI, Meta, and others are working on them too.

But now I know a lot more about how they work.

Thanks X. This morning when I woke up I had no idea who I would meet. Another meeting in a few minutes.

Can’t do this in most other places in the world. This morning I wrote that I had the day free, and already an amazing day. Plus the weather is so amazing today.

And my other surreptitious meetings today? Entrepreneurs who are changing how we work. Deeply too, more on that soon.

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Pode vir@thiagoTF

@Scobleizer @khal_ism another tech bro hyping shit where's the actual mechanism to signal demand for these brain chips not just scoble's fomo

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nabu@nabu_lines

@Scobleizer @khal_ism search was about finding information... BCIs might be about indexing experience, the moment you can think remember this and retrieve it years later, memory becomes searchable♨️

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ZotBot@M_Zot_ike

@Scobleizer @khal_ism Personally I cannot wait for this tech to come here.

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obio@hosein_obio

@Scobleizer @khal_ism If even a fraction of this ships UX will never be the same again buddy

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Dennis Herzog X@DennisHerzog18

@Scobleizer @khal_ism Cognitive enhancements without implants, count me in.

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anonimo@anonimo1is

@Scobleizer @khal_ism Curious about the tech, but how do you know it can reliably translate a thought into ten distinct topics? What evidence or benchmark would make you accept that claim?

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

@thiagoTF @khal_ism If you don't know who I am, this isn't just hype shit. This guy has a team of neuroscientists working on this.

I've broken and launched thousands of companies over the years. You're real close to earning a block for just being a dick.

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Blissy@BlissyOnX

@Scobleizer @khal_ism eight books deep and still taking meetings in cafes, respect

curious how many of the predictions aged well

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Blissy@BlissyOnX

@Scobleizer @khal_ism 10 predefined thoughts sounds like both a feature and a prison

hope one of them is "lower volume"

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