How the Power to Control Objects With Our Minds Stopped Being Science Fiction

How the Power to Control Objects With Our Minds Stopped Being Science Fiction
A young woman watches a man, wearing an EEG brain scanning apparatus on his head, play a pinball game solely through willing the paddles to react with his brain at the Berlin Brain Computer Interface research consortium stand at the CeBIT Technology Fair in Hannover, Germany, on March 2, 2010. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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The recent announcement that a young paralyzed man in Ohio in the United States named Ian Burkhart managed to regain the use of his fingers after having a chip implanted in his brain is an exciting step forward for science and healthcare. In fact, you may now be wondering how long it will be before we can unlock a door, turn on a kettle, or even send an email simply by thinking about it?

Ian Burkhart. (rumedicalnews, CC BY-SA)
Ian Burkhart. rumedicalnews, CC BY-SA
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