OpenBCI.com initiates as a community driven open-source platform for makers and consumers. Self-printable EEG-headsets, ciruit boards, software and learning courses allow enthusiasts, researcher and consumer to get a cheap and easy entry to experiment with the technology.

Miguel Nicolelis and his team succeded in an experiment that allowed thought transfer between two mouse brains through the internet over a distance of 7000 miles. A nice Video shows the setup. According to the scientist the experiment had a 70% correct rate.

Ayesa Paul and Dr. Amit Lal at DARPA surgically implanted micro-platforms in Manduca sexta Moths. The goal for DARPA was to create remote-controlled or GPS-guided bugs that are able to transmit data from onboard sensors and cameras.

Tetraplegic Matt Nagle controls an artificial hand using a  Cyberkinetics’s BrainGate chip-implant, implanted in Nagle's right precentral gyrus (motor cortex). Allowing Nagle to control a robotic arm by thinking about moving his hand as well as a computer cursor, lights and TV.

Dr. Rainer Goebel from the University of Maastrich conducted an experiment with MRI’s where two participants play PONG against another just using their mind. No implants where used and the software was able to run in real-time.

The first international BCI meeting takes place at Rensselaerville Institute, New York with 50 delegates and 24 labs participating. This marks the beginning of the bloom of this research field.

John K. Chapin and Miguel Nicolelis succeed first time to have mice controlling a robot arm with an implated Brain-Computer Interface in experiments. Two years later they proof the same with monkeys.

The first Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) gets approved by the American Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for essential tremor and Parkinson's disease (PD).

Scientists Farwell and Donchin successfully test a BCI for spelling letters based on Event-Related Potentials (ERP). A 6*6 grid of letters and digits is displayed on a computer screen, each flashing randomly. The user is asked to silently count the flashes of the letter she/he wants to select. The correct letter is found by syncronizing the counting speed read out through an EEG with the flashings of the P300-speller.

Within the 1980ies scientests around 
Apostolos Georgopoulos at Johns Hopkins University conducted experiments to read signals from groups of brain cells, process them and conduct predictions what certain brain-action-potential could mean. For example, see neurons firing in a monkeys motorical cortex and then tell what limb the monkey was wanting to move.

Dr. Jose Delgado, a Spanish Neuroscientist at Yale University, implanted a device that he called the "stimoceiver" into the cortex of a bull in Cordoba. He could push a button on his radio transmitter and the raging bull instantly stopped raging and stood still (CNN report on YouTube).  Here a well written article about Dr. Delagados life and work.

Richard Canton, a British physician and physiologist reported on 4th of August 1875 to the British Medical Association in Edinburgh that he had used a galvanometer to observe electrical impulses from the surfaces of living brains in the rabbit and monkey.