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A Michigan woman who had nearly lost the ability to speak to motor neuron disease used Paradromics' Connexus device, implanted on the surface of her brain, to turn brain signals into words of her own choosing in real time and to talk with her family. The 421 platinum-iridium microwires at the edge of the device record signals from individual neurons, and software decodes them into text and synthesized speech. The work is part of the FDA-approved Connect-One early feasibility study; Connexus remains an investigational device, and the company plans six years of follow-up to assess safety and durability.

MEG systems maker MEGIN says it has opened a side-by-side dual-MEG hyperscanning facility at Tsinghua University in Beijing, built with the Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at Aalto University. Two MEGIN TRIUX neo systems sit in adjacent magnetically shielded rooms, which the company says allows simultaneous whole-head recording from two interacting participants with millisecond-level synchronization, opening a real-time window on how two brains interact during natural conversation, cooperation and play. MEGIN says the first scientific work from the facility will be presented at the BIOMAG 2026 conference in Beijing, running August 23 to 25, 2026; the announcement does not disclose what the facility cost, how long it took to build, or which research projects are already under way.

SpikeGadgets has released wireless dataloggers compatible with Neuropixels probes, letting an animal carry the entire recording system and write high-density probe data straight to onboard storage instead of down a cable. Four studies over the past year used the setup in bats, rats and marmosets, and their findings are reshaping long-standing assumptions about hippocampal replay, prefrontal sequence coding and vocal communication.