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Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind

Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo Alto-based startup working on a beanie it says will probe your actual brain signals. That’s not hyperbole. The company’s eponymous Sabi Cap, per New Atlas, comes lined with 100,000 electroencephalography (EEG) sensors, which will translate electrical signals from your brain into usable data for Sabi’s “Brain Foundation” AI model — all meant to transcribe your thoughts into digital text at what the company says will be a rate of 30 words per minute. The AI model powering it is said to be trained on 100,000 hours of data from some 100 volunteers, Wired previously reported. But given that thought and speech patterns vary wildly between person to person, the challenge of building a universally workable EEG-to-speech device is enormous, and the company has yet to share any evidence that its product performs as advertised. “These devices are going to have …

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

Published by skeptic

Speech-to-text capability is now baked into all modern computers. But what if you didn’t have to dictate to your computer? What if you could type just by thinking? Silicon Valley startup Sabi is emerging from stealth with that goal. The company is developing a brain wearable that decodes a person’s internal speech into words on a computer screen. CEO Rahul Chhabra says its first product, a brain-reading beanie, will be available by the end of the year. The company is also designing a baseball cap version. The technology is known as a brain-computer interface, or BCI, a device that provides a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. While many companies such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink are developing surgically implanted BCIs for people with severe motor disabilities, Sabi’s device could allow anyone to become a cyborg. It’s not exactly Musk’s vision of the future, which involves implanted brain chips to allow humans to merge with AI. But venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who was an early investor in OpenAI, says a noninvasive, wearable …

A Skull Cap Beanie Is the Better Way to Protect Your Noggin

A Skull Cap Beanie Is the Better Way to Protect Your Noggin

Published by Jenni Sidey

Despite the think pieces, take-downs, and skewering memes, the itty-bitty cuffed beanie persists. You know the one I’m talking about—it is, after all, an otherwise regular beanie, save for the fact that the end of it has been rolled upward, leaving its wearer’s ears uncovered. Don’t get me wrong: a cuffed beanie can look cool when done right (we see you, Keanu Reeves, and we salute your efforts). At its most cringe, though, it can also reduce your entire outfit to cursed starter-pack fodder. We haven’t quite reached the point where cuffed beanies feel as stale as cuffed jeans, but we’re getting close. Luckily, the remedy is simple: unfurl your beanies, bros of the world, and opt for a cuffless toque or a skull cap beanie instead. Thurston Power Wool Beanie Lady White Co. Ambrosia Beanie Skull caps, for example, feature a slimmer profile than the chunky watch caps ubiquitous in third-wave cafes and on stubbly workwear buffs. They’re also more malleable, and easier to shape, crush, and obsessively mold to your will—and noggin. Unlike …