Aspiring Svengalis rejoice! For BrainGate has reached a big landmark in computational thought-control — the 4 x 4-mm implantable chip has given a girl with tetraplegia the power to indicate and click on together with her brain for 1,000 days. A piece of writing recently published within the Journal of Neural Engineering said the lady, known simply as S3, performed two easy tasks every 24 hours, using her mind to govern a cursor with 90 percent accuracy. Daily she was monitored, S3 would post up in front of a pc and continuously command the object along with her thoughts for 10 minutes. Functionality reportedly deteriorated through the years, however the paper points to the chip’s durability, not sensor-brain incompatibility, because the culprit. Research is currently underway to include BrainGate into advanced prosthetics that would get tetraplegics like S3 up and moving again. Now, how’s that for the facility of positive thinking?
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