Control an iPad With Your Mind? Breakthrough Demo Using Apple's BCI HID

Aug 4, 2025

Watch as Mark, a participant in Synchron’s COMMAND study, controls his iPad entirely with thought using Synchron’s brain-computer interface (BCI) and Apple’s new BCI Human Interface Device (HID) protocol.

In this groundbreaking demo, Mark, who lives with ALS, navigates his iPad home screen, opens apps, and composes messages using only his mind. Synchron’s Kurt Haggstrom and Peter Yoo explain the BCI HID protocol and how the Stentrode™ system enables native, thought-driven control of Apple devices.

This is the first public demonstration of Apple’s BCI HID protocol in action, a major leap forward in assistive technology and the future of human-computer interaction.

Learn more: www.synchron.com