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Some serious progress is being made in brain-tech interfaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf your brain can do it, we can tap into it,\u2019\u2019 said John P. Donoghue, a professor at Brown University who led the development of the system and was the senior author of a report published today in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n

In separate experiments, the first person to receive the implant, Matthew Nagle, was able to move a cursor, open e-mail, play a simple video game called Pong and draw a crude circle on the screen. He could change the channel or volume of a television set, move a robot arm somewhat, and open and close a prosthetic hand.<\/p>\n

Although his cursor control was sometimes wobbly, the basic movements were not hard to learn. \u201cI pretty much had that mastered in four days,\u2019\u2019 Mr. Nagle, now 26, said in a telephone interview from the New England Sinai Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Stoughton, Mass., where he lives. He said the implant did not cause any pain. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is actually pretty keen stuff. Laziness about where the hell the remote is aside, I don’t have a lot of desire to have a technology interface set up with my brain (heck, I work with computers, and I don’t want those buggy beasts coming anywhere near my gray cells), but if I were paralyzed, or even “just” seriously disabled, I’d be much more interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some serious progress is being made in brain-tech interfaces. \u201cIf your brain can do it, we can tap into it,\u2019\u2019 said John P. 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