CTRL-Labs

CTRL-Labs is the American company developing the software which allows people to manage computers using reason. startap osnovn in 2015 Thomas Reardon and Patrick Kayfosh who received doctor's degree in the field of neurology in Columbia University. Earlier Reardon worked nine years in Microsoft, and then occupied one of executive positions in Openwave Systems.

History

2019: Facebook purchased CTRL-Labs

On September 23, 2019 Facebook announced CTRL-Labs acquisition, but the cost of the transaction did not sound. According to the informed sources of CNBC, the world's largest social network paid for a startup from $500 million to $1 billion. The representative of Facebook in a conversation with TV channel said that the amount was less than $1 billion.

After accomplishment of all formalities concerning CTRL-Labs sale, the company will join division of Facebook Reality Labs which among other things is engaged in development of "smart" points for augmented reality.

Facebook purchased software developer for control of computers by force of thought

CTRL-Labs developed the bracelet analyzing signals which arrive from a brain of the person to a hand. It allows the person to print the text on the computer without the keyboard, tapping with fingers on a table-top. The company already declared plans to extend action of the technologies to smartphones.

Such bracelets can use together with points of virtual reality, notices Bloomberg. In the future people with their help will be able to manage computers without keyboard and a mouse.

We hope to create such technology in scale and quicker to implement it in consumer goods — the vice president of Facebook Andrew Bosuort said.

Earlier Facebook  reported that the company made progress in development of the device which will allow people to print by means of a thought.  The neyrokopyyuterny interface allowing to transform results of brain activity to the text and to transfer it to the screen was created.^[1]

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