A paralyzed man has successfully had 100 electrodes implanted in his motor cortex, which allow him to control linked devices in his home via a graphical interface displayed on his computer’s screen.
Professor John Donoghue, an expert on neuroscience at Brown University, Rhode Island, is the scientist behind the device produced by Cyberkinetics.
He said: “The computer screen is basically a TV remote control panel, and in order to indicate a selection he merely has to pass the cursor over an icon, and that’s equivalent to a click when he goes over that icon.”
Mr Nagle has also been able to use thought to move a prosthetic hand and robotic arm to grab sweets from one person’s hand and place them into another.
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