Would a a Brain Chip Help? - Page 2

goldensrbest · ‎03-10-2010

Does it consist of numbers?

When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

@KingstonMom wrote:
This chip is intended and being tested to help people who have lost the use of their limbs.

FDA gave them permission for human testing.

The chip allows the implanted patient to control electronic devices just by thinking thus helping people who have lost motor control due to spinal cord injury or ALS.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

At first, I was horrified to hear this, but after learning how it works, I think this is a miracle invention.

I watched a pig who was paralyzed stand up, walk and move it's legs.

How wonderful this will be for people who have brain and nerve damage and are paralyzed.

I saw the device was just implanted into a human being. It has a great future. I hope it works.

GoneButNotForgotten · ‎03-29-2020

I don't know if it would work but I need all the help I can get

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

@Carmie wrote:
At first, I was horrified to hear this, but after learning how it works, I think this is a miracle invention.

I watched a pig who was paralyzed stand up, walk and move it's legs.

How wonderful this will be for people who have brain and nerve damage and are paralyzed.

I saw the device was just implanted into a human being. It has a great future. I hope it works.

@Carmie It won't restore motor function to a person's limbs but it will allow them to operate electronic devices through their thoughts. For example typing an email on a computer or speaking through an augmentative communication device.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@ninjawife wrote:
@Carmie wrote:
At first, I was horrified to hear this, but after learning how it works, I think this is a miracle invention.

I watched a pig who was paralyzed stand up, walk and move it's legs.

How wonderful this will be for people who have brain and nerve damage and are paralyzed.

I saw the device was just implanted into a human being. It has a great future. I hope it works.
@Carmie It won't restore motor function to a person's limbs but it will allow them to operate electronic devices through their thoughts. For example typing an email on a computer or speaking through an augmentative communication device.

The article I read and the info I saw on TV shows that this type of implant does help paralyzed animals move their limbs again.

And, last year Swiss researchers combined AI and spine and brain implants to help a man paralyzed in a motorcycle accident walk again.

So, yes it does restore function to a person's limbs in addition to allowing them to operate electronics devices with their minds.

It looks real promising.

Venezia · ‎03-09-2010

"Star Trek"...onto the Next Generation!

There was a wonderful documentary about all the things in "Star Trek" that were "futuristic" and have since become common items. Think the communicator device (= the modern cell phone) for one example.

When I read something like this, I think of Dr. McCoy "Bones", curing a person with kidney disease with a pill. Who knows what advances will be made?

"" A little learning is a dangerous thing."-Alexander Pope

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

Some things would be wonderful for the people who need medical help. I'd wait to see more test results.

MorningLover · ‎10-04-2015

June 9, 2023

USA Today: Elon Musk's Neuralink has FDA approval to put chips in humans' brains. Here's what's next.

What does the Neuralink brain chip actually do?

Neuralink's goal with its human trials is to eventually enable a person with paralysis to use a computer or phone with their brain activity alone.

The Neuralink 1 implant actually includes multiple chips, a wireless battery and other electronics hermetically sealed within a device about the size of a large coin.

Several dozen ultra-thin threads protrude from the implant; those go directly into the brain.

Signals from the implant are sent via Bluetooth to, and decoded by, a brain-computer interface (BCI), which would allow a person to, for instance, control an onscreen cursor or move a robotic limb.

Elon Musk shows the Neuralink disk implant in this video grab from an online presentation on August 28, 2020. Neuralink said FDA clearance for its first in-human clinical study is "an important first step" for its technology, which is intended to let brains interface directly with computers.

Elon Musk shows the Neurakink disc implant in this video grab from an online presentation on August 28, 2020.

"The first thing that we're going after is a wireless implanted chip that would enable someone who is a … tetraplegic or quadriplegic to control a computer, or mouse, or their phone, or really any device … just by thinking."

"This obviously would be a massive enabler, make life way easier for them," Musk said via an online chat in 2021.

Beyond helping paralyzed patients regain some mobility and communicate without typing, Neuralink's longer-term goals include helping restore full mobility and sight.