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It would be interesting to see followups about these people who had significant brain-computer interfaces. How long the implant stays functional, infections, li
by nabla9 5y ago
It would be interesting to see followups about these people who had significant brain-computer interfaces. How long the implant stays functional, infections, life-expectancy changes.
The Dobelle Eye for example. In the early 2000s Dobelle Eye brain implant allowed blind man to drive a car in a parking lot using cameras that feed video into his into the visual cortex. They had to make the operation outside the US (Lisbon) and patients had occasional seizures even then.
Wired article: https://www.wired.com/2002/09/vision/ https://www.wired.com/2002/09/vision/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Dobelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Dobelle