Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "Matt Angle"


5 mentions found


And yet, the brain does incredible things," said Matt Angle, CEO and founder of Paradromics, in an interview with CNBC Tech: The Edge. The trial would follow competitor Neuralink, which implanted a chip into a patient's brain in March this year. "Paradromics' mission is to transform otherwise untreatable health conditions in brain health into solvable technology problems. "Paradromics can take the science and apply the right engineering to get us from research to medical device," he added. "We see that the first million people to get brain computer interfaces are going to be getting them to treat severe medical conditions," Angle said.
Persons: Matt Angle, Elon Musk, Angle, Vikash Gilja, Gilja, we're Organizations: CNBC Tech, CNBC Locations: Austin , Texas
We're fundamentally building a medical device to serve unmet needs. What that does is it allows us to connect to the brain and receive data from the brain. And so Paradromics can take the science and apply the right engineering to get us from research to medical device. I work on developing processes or selecting the materials that we would like to use to build our cortical module, which is the brain implant portion of our system. We see that the first million people to get brain computer interfaces are going to be getting them to treat severe medical conditions.
Persons: Matt Angle, Paradromics, They're, I'm, Kimiko Nakajima, we're Organizations: BCI
Paradromics, founded in 2015, is developing a brain implant that could help patients with severe paralysis regain their ability to communicate by deciphering their neural signals. A BCI is a system that deciphers brain signals and translates them into commands for external technologies. As of May, no BCI company has managed to clinch the FDA's final seal of approval. Paradromics' BCI, the Connexus Direct Data Interface, is an assistive communication device that translates neural signals into text or synthesized speech. An array of tiny electrodes is implanted directly into the brain tissue, where it measures and deciphers brain signals that are ultimately emitted to external devices through a transceiver that sits under the skin in the chest.
Gonzalez did his own spending and campaigning, but amid an onslaught of Republican spending in the region’s elections, the DCCC ads were welcome, Gonzalez’s campaign said. “We did historic investments when it came to Latino voters and voters of color,” said Maríafernanda Zacarías, DCCC senior adviser for Latino engagement. That Latino spending was just one portion of the big-money ultimately unsuccessful effort to hold the House Democratic majority. Democrats invested in holding their Latino support and “mostly succeeded,” said Angle, who runs the Lone Star Project supporting Texas Democrats. Republican Rep. Mike Garcia defeated Democrat Christy Smith to return to Congress for California’s 27th Congressional District, based in northern Los Angeles.
That's when I started reporting on them, and like any good nerd I was compelled by what scientists could learn with these "brain computer interfaces." The race for implantable brain chips has been a long, deliberate marathon. Graham Felstead, who has severe paralysis, was the first person to have a BCI inserted via the blood vessels. Brain chips will enable them to perform simple actions on their own and reduce the need for round-the-clock care. "When we started in 2015 and I was pitching venture capitalists on brain computer interfaces, no one knew what a brain computer interface was," says Matt Angle, the CEO of Paradromics.
Total: 5