Bluetooth in brain could control prosthetic limbs [video]
Although not yet a reality, researchers are developing brain implants designed to communicate with prosthetics—with the goal of turning thoughts into movement. A team of biomedical engineering is testing a multi-channel grid of disk-like electrodes implanted just under a macaque’s skull. They hope the implant will allow them to train the monkey to control—strictly by thinking about it—a computational model of a macaque arm.
“Eventually, we’ll have a little piece of Saran Wrap with telemetry. We’ll drill a small hole in the skull, pop the bone out, drop the device in, replace the bone, sew up the scalp, and you’ll have what amounts to Bluetooth in your head that translates your thoughts into actions," says Daniel Moran, associate professor of biomedical engineering and neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis.
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