{"id":184256,"date":"2025-08-04T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=184256"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:31:02","slug":"thought-controlled-ipad-for-als-patients-shown-in-groundbreaking-demo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/thought-controlled-ipad-for-als-patients-shown-in-groundbreaking-demo-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought-controlled iPad for ALS patients shown in groundbreaking demo video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Medical company Synchron has demonstrated using Apple\u2019s new thought protocol to enable a patient to use an iPad solely by thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What if you could use your iPad just by thinking? No tapping, no swiping no voice commands\u2014just pure thought. That once sci-fi-sounding idea just became real, as a patient suffering from ALS, which is a condition that causes progressive loss of muscle control, was able to use an iPad using only their brain.<\/p>\n

A video<\/a> published on YouTube demonstrates this in action. Instead of some Frankenstein lab setup, the solution uses Apple\u2019s new Brain-Computer Interface Human Interface Device (BCI HID) protocol, unveiled in May 2025<\/a> and shown in action for the first time.<\/p>\n

Thought-controlled iPads are becoming a reality<\/h2>\n

It permits Synchron\u2019s brain-computer interface (BCI) device, implanted through a vein, called Switch, to collect motor data from the blood vessel in the brain. Apple\u2019s protocol interprets the data and translates it into swipes, taps, etc. The BCI HID protocol permits BCI devices to send input to Apple devices in a standardized way.<\/p>\n

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