February 03, 2010
Sparking Innovation
The next iteration of the X Prize will offer $10 million to the team that successfully develops a brain-computer interface. Previously, the X Prize awarded $10 million to Virgin Galactic for successfully developing a viable commercial passenger spacecraft, so this new competition bears watching. The article doesn't go into a lot of detail on what will constitute the winning entry, but it does contain this curious quote:
The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) X PRIZE will reward nothing less than a team that provides vision to the blind, new bodies to disabled people, and perhaps even a geographical “sixth sense” akin to a GPS iPhone app in the brain.
I'm not sure how a BCI will give me a new body, but that's not what what I'm interested in. I just want the means to take over the world with my army of giant thought-controlled robots. I promise that the winning X Prize team will be appointed to appropriate scientific roles (yet to be determined) within my royal court. Also, I will make myself available to all teams for field testing.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at February 3, 2010 07:41 PM