cursor

In trials, patients have demonstrated thought-controlled cursor navigation and robotic arm manipulation -- genuine breakthroughs, although ethicists and regulators have raised questions about privacy and long-term safety.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

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

A paralyzed Arizona man became the first human to receive the implant in January and has since moved a cursor, browsed the internet and played video games with this thoughts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

The cursor blinked on the internet search engine screen, awaiting my instructions.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

In a presentation showcasing the Neuralink implant that Elon Musk hopes will someday connect the human brain to a computer, two monkeys were reportedly moving computer cursors with their brains.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

I also had a whole bunch of glitches just navigating around Windows, with disappearing cursors and randomly popping-up Steam virtual keyboards.

From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022

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

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