Bezos and Gates join monetary forces with the original funders of Australian-based Synchron, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Department of Defense (DoD). So, this is a project of the U.S. Military? It’s one step closer to having a “super-soldier” of the future. ⁃ TN Editor

Synchron is part of an emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry.
The system is implanted through the blood vessels and allows patients to operate technology using only their minds.
“It helps them engage in ways that we take for granted,” Synchron CEO Tom Oxley said.

In a Brooklyn lab stuffed with 3D printers and a makeshift pickleball court, employees at a brain interface startup called Synchron are working on technology designed to transform daily life for people with paralysis.

The Synchron Switch is implanted through the blood vessels to allow people with no or very limited physical mobility to operate technology such as cursors and smart home devices using their mind. So far, the nascent technology has been used on three patients in the U.S. and four in Australia.
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