Pressing buttons with your hands is a drag. With OpenBCI,you can use your mind to control smartphones, robots, and even your friends’ limbs.

Background: Brain-computer interfaces have been around for decades. But, thanks to recent advances in machine learning, they’ve become a hugely popular field of research-for-future-profit.

The board also supports wifi via an included antenna port and connects to your projects via a JEDEC DDR2 SODIMM connector. It starts at $25 for the base model and $90 for the tricked-out version.

In one of the most accurate simulations of the human brain to date, a Japanese supercomputer modeled one second of one percent of human brain activity, a task that took 40 minutes, according to ...