
He spent a decade making electrodes softer, thinner and easier to deploy. Now the Swiss engineer behind Neurosoft Bioelectronics is building a company around a deceptively simple idea: the best interface with the brain may be the one that behaves least like a machine.

A vehicle-electronics apprentice became an identity-infrastructure founder by refusing to treat authentication as a finished problem. Now Florian Forster is taking a Swiss-born open-source company to San Francisco - notifications, trade-offs and all.