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Jeremy Laird

Meta's experimental 'neural' wristband controller will be a real product that lets you type just by thinking because Zuck doesn't want 'a chip that you jack into your brain'

Meta wristband.

Fancied some hot neural-machine interfacing action but not totally sold on a chip buried in your head by Neuralink's slightly (completely) terrifying robosurgeon and its nightmarish needle? Then good old Zuck' and Meta have something for you.

It's a wristband that tracks hand and finger movements by detecting the neural electrical signals passing through the nerves in your arm using an entirely non-invasive technique called electromyography. Sounds much more friendly? Yes. And yet no.

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