'Neural Dust,' Implanted In Brain, May Let Minds Meld With Machines

Earlier this month, five researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, put out a paper discussing the possible development of mind-reading "neural dust," which could be implanted directly into the human brain to allow people to interact with machines. The paper is what the MIT Technology Review calls a theoretical study: The idea is "littered with challenges beyond the state-of-the-art." But according to the Berkeley team, this neural dust sprinkled into an individual's brain tissue cou...