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October 23, 2004

Brain implant transmits thoughts to computer

A 25-year-old Massachusetts man who can't move his arms and legs has been checking his e-mail and changing television channels - just by thinking about it.

The man, Matthew Nagle, is the first person ever to receive a brain implant that transmits his thoughts to a computer cursor, using technology originally developed and tested in monkeys at Brown University.

Nagle received the implant at Rhode Island Hospital in late June and began using it about six weeks later. He is the first participant in a study of the device, known as BrainGate, developed by the Foxboro, Mass.-based Cybernetics Neurotechnology Systems. The research is financed by venture capital.

BrainGate is a silicon wafer about a sixth-inch square, with 100 hair-thin electrodes that extend a sixteenth of an inch into the brain.

When Nagle thinks about moving his arm, the electrodes pick up his brain signals and transmit them to a half-inch-high pedestal on the outside of his head. The signals then travel through a fiber-optic cable to a cart laden with computer equipment.

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This is one more step towards the applications cybernetics in medical. Cybernetics is one of the advanced technologies that will change the life of common people in coming time. One of the great researchers in the area of Cybernetics, Prof Kevin Warwick of University of Reading has already performed few experiments on himself and his wife.All the sci-fi movies, which use to show the half man and half machines like Will Smith in I, Robot and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator will become normal people living around us. These are the future human machines that will take the shape of reality with the growing research in Cybernetics.

Posted by thinkingmachine at October 23, 2004 10:54 AM

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