The number of people with electrodes in their brains is believed to have more than doubled in the last couple of years. This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first ...

It might soon be “game over” for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

UIs are evolving from the fixed, static screens we've viewed for decades to generated 'just-in-time' projection layers that appear as simple text boxes. Recently, Salesforce announced “Headless 360,” ...

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As you’ve probably noticed, the Windows 11 user interface is a patchwork of different solutions, some of which have been around since the introduction of Windows 3.1 in 1992. It’s anything but ...

A secretive AI lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock shared new details about what it believes is a novel marriage of model-building and hardware design that will change how humans interact ...

Once upon a time, the portal concept promised to give every user a personalized view. Finally, the promise of a web where the user was also the controller could be realized. That didn’t quite work out ...

An important milestone has been achieved in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. A new peer-reviewed study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering shows how a high-performance brain-computer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. AI innovators have been telling us that AI is the new UI, or user interface, for over a ...

In the digital world, the user interface is the medium of communication. It is the surface at which humans interact with the functionalities provided by machines—whether hardware or software. As such, ...

A man who hasn’t been able to move or speak for years imagines picking up a cup and filling it with water. In response to the man’s thoughts, a robotic arm mounted on his wheelchair glides forward, ...