A brain-hacking technique may make prosthetics easier to control with your mind

Brain-Computer Interfaces, or BCIs, have gained recent notoriety thanks to Elon Musk and his Pong-playing monkey, but in truth, researchers have been experimenting with the tech for years.

Some of the greatest advances of this technology have been in the world of prosthetics. Think robot arms and hands, or other limbs, controlled via an implant in the brain.