Last month, I, EEGor, took part in the Brain-Computer Interface Designers Hackathon (BR41N.IO), the opening event of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference in Bari, Italy. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are a class of technologies designed to translate brain activity into machine actions to assist (currently in clinical trials) as well as (one day) enhance human beings. BCIs are receiving more and more media attention, most recently with the launch of Elon Musk’s newest company, Neuralink which aims to set up a two-way communication channel between man and machine using a tiny chip embedded in the brain. With the further aim of one-day perhaps making our wildest transhumanist dreams come true…