Are you tired of constantly getting up to turn off the lights in your home? Imagine being able to control your lights with just your voice. Thanks to the Amazon Echo Dot and Alexa, this futuristic dream can become a reality.

To be able to manage important aspects of my environment and control access to entertainment gives me back the independence that I’m losing.”

A New York-based neurotech startup, Synchron, successfully implanted its brain-computer interface into a blood vessel on the brain of the man with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. ALS affects motor neurons, the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.