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Braingate2: Your Mind Just Went Wireless
- icey 17y agoThey've already done one round of clinical trials on people with this? I wonder what the profile is of their average volunteer. It sounds pretty cool right up to the whole "implanting a device in your skull" part.
- robg 17y agoBrainGate used severely paralyzed adults from "spinal-cord injury, stroke, or muscular dystrophy". Like with anything implanted, the biggest concern is infection but which can be easily monitored at the implantation site. Similar work has used locked-in patients (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-In_syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-In_syndrome).
- dmix 17y agoIf you've ever watched The Diving Bell & the Butterfly you can understand that this could be a big deal to thousands of people.
- joeyo 17y agoTetraplegic.
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- swombat 17y agoI think I'll wait for the non-invasive version. My trusty old Logitech will do just fine until they figure out a way to do this without opening a hole in my skull.
- kiba 17y agoI wonder what part of invasiveness you don't like. So...you don't want your brain to be invasively housed in a super strong skull that can survive being stomped on by tanks, underwater pressure, and extreme variances in temperature and environment?
- swombat 17y agoWhen we get to the point where we can safely replace skulls, I'll go for it. However, right now, given the state of human surgery knowledge and abilities, I'll give it a miss. Maybe in 20 years.
- pj 17y agoit's an issue of resolution. Using actual neuronal signals is much more precise than sampling brain waves from outside the skull.