{"id":2562,"date":"2010-02-03T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2010-02-03T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:41:00","slug":"sparking_innova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"Sparking Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next iteration of the X Prize will offer <a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/articles\/neuro\/bci-x-prize-time-it%E2%80%99s-inner-space\">$10 million to the team that successfully develops a brain-computer interface<\/a>. 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&#8217;t go into a lot of detail on what will constitute the winning entry, but it does contain this curious quote: <br \/><b><br \/>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 \u201csixth sense\u201d akin to a GPS iPhone app in the brain.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how a BCI will give me a new body, but that&#8217;s not what what I&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t go into a lot of detail on what <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2562' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}