Facebook Inc (FB) Working on System to Let People Type with Brains, Smell with Skin

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) concluded its 2-day developer conference in California with a bomb of tech updates to its current platforms but what got the tech and science community stunned was the company’s “Building 8” projects, which include a system that will “let people type with their brains” and a project which will allow people to “hear with their skin.”

The projects are related to the company’s silent speech communications project of Building 8, the product dev and research team that Mark Zuckerberg created in Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) that focused on creating and shipping new, category-defining consumer products that are social first, and that advance Facebook’s mission. The company wants to decode the words you are thinking with the speed and flexibility of your voice and the privacy of text via non-invasive, wearable sensors that can be manufactured at scale. The other project is the development of a hardware and software necessary to deliver language through the skin.

The news follows another work announced by Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk on linking the human brain with a machine interface called Neuralink to help with certain severe brain injuries.

Facebook on April 21 is down 0.04% or $0.06 in light trading to $143.74.

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The Bottom Line

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is in the spotlight after the company announced silent speech communication projects that will let people “type from their brains” and “hear straight from their skins.” For further reading, here are 10 countries where Twitter and Facebook usage is shrinking.

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