USA Today profiles the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehab conference presentation of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems’ new device trial. The patient / subject in the trial is able to control a computer through more than 100 sensors implanted in his brain, enabling him to open email, control a television and play Pong “with 70% accuracy.” Cyberkinetics, along with Neural Signals and other small companies growing with money from DARPA and investors, is moving along a path that many describe as “suddenly explosive.”
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