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One showed a “B,” for “benign,” when the doctor’s cursor isolated it with her mouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

In the late 1990s, neurologist Philip Kennedy developed the first BCI to allow a severely paralyzed patient to move a computer cursor using their brain.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026

With the one finger he is able to move, he controls the on-screen cursor using a trackball.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

When Noland awoke from the surgery which installed the device, he said he was initially able to control a cursor on a screen by thinking about wiggling his fingers.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025

It fills my vision, page after page, until it finally hits the bottom and gives me a blinking cursor.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

He can turn typing fingers and blinking cursors into the stuff of quietly engrossing drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

In December 2015, engineers in Ukrainian power stations saw cursors on their computer screens moving by themselves.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2022

The sensor arrays used in this research, smaller than a button, allow patients to move robotic arms or cursors on a screen just by thinking.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2020

Bouton and other researchers are already developing brain implants for people with limited mobility, letting recipients control computer cursors or robotic arms by thought alone.

From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2018

Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele