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I’m not surprised given the person in charge, but I still feel bad for the guy. Being almost completely paralyzed, it makes total sense to jump at the chance to get some normalcy back.
I didn’t expect 85% of the wires to already detach at this point. In a just society, the whole company would be shut down and the CEO put into a bottomless pit.
It says he’s still able to play games and move a mouse cursor and click on things so it’s not entirely useless and it’s better than not being able to do any of those things. But the article is really light on details and citations so who knows what they’re covering up.
The capacity you describe is already available in hobbyist grade products. Not consumer grade yet, but you can see youtubers playing with kits to do all that in their gamer chair with no surgery.
Oh that’s great, I didn’t know that
The that I can think of immediately is called Next Mind. I am sure there are others now. It seemed like with a little effort they could reliably wear a headband and their their mind to click on stuff.