The startups bringing brain-computer interfaces to market
Marketplace Tech
American Public Media
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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On this episode of “Marketplace Tech,” host Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Christopher Mims, a tech journalist at The Wall Street Journal, about the recent evolution of brain computer interfaces — technology that has enabled people with paralysis to move prosthetic limbs or type out communication using computer implants in their brains — and the neurotech startups trying to bring their implants to a larger market by making them less invasive.
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| 1:52.7 | Thank you. in public media. This is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. Brain computer interfaces, or BCIs, have made real gains in recent years. This technology has |
| 1:59.7 | enabled people with paralysis to move prosthetic limbs |
| 2:03.4 | or type out communication using computer implants in their brains. Now, some Neurotech |
| 2:09.7 | startups are hoping to bring their implants to a larger market by making them less invasive. |
| 2:15.8 | Several have received FDA approval to start clinical trials in people, |
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