29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh, a quadriplegic, says the brain implant has allowed him to play chess and Civilization on his PC using his mind. 'I’m so freaking lucky to be a part of this,' he says.
  • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    84·
    8 months ago

    If it’s not open source and open hardware I’m not putting that shit in my head lmfao

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      63·
      8 months ago

      Yep, there’s already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
        18·
        8 months ago

        “Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under…”

        Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.

    • elshandra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      It’s only a hop step from there to something less invasive thankfully.

      Intravascular neural interfaces are already reducing the invasiveness, but hopefully that is just a short step.

    • LmaydevEnglish
      66·
      8 months ago

      I doubt I’d care if I was paraplegic. Very easy to say from a point of privilege.

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        8 months ago

        You might. You don’t want to get into a situation where Neuralink says that they’re not doing BCI like the ones installed in your head any more, and have it shut down spontaneously when the company turns off support.

        It’s happened before to people with artificial eyes, and they’re both left blind because the hardware doesn’t work any more, and they can’t afford to have it removed (if that’s even safely doable).

      • witx@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        It’s exactly the people that can have a choice who should be helping those who can’t, don’t you agree?

        The fight for open software and hardware wouldn’t be made by going around paraplegic people and bothering them about it, but by discussing it with the vendors and legislators.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      8 months ago

      Don’t forget it wasn’t made by The Musk. There are probably countless people involved in technology like that. Emerald boi probably just foot the bill and flapped his jowls.

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
        527·
        8 months ago

        The mental gymnastics needed to turn even every positive news article against Musk is quite amusing. When it’s bad Elon did it personally and when it’s good he had nothing to do with it.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          311·
          8 months ago

          When it’s bad Elon did it personally and when it’s good he had nothing to do with it.

          No… If it’s actual tech, Elon had nothing to do with it because he’s a fucking idiot that’s never actually created anything of value. He’s not an engineer, he’s a guy with a shit load of money that made a couple smart investments early on.

          He had no role in the development of PayPal.

          He didn’t even “start” Tesla, he bought enough shares to get control and became CEO years after the company was created by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

          Dude does nothing but take credit for the work of actual engineers.

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          8 months ago

          I will turn every right winger positive into a negative as long as they keep stripping our rights. Fuck them. They could literally save my life and I’d punch them in the face with the scale of harm they cause with their hateful policies. Musky boi is no different. He wants to be the Emperor and his clothes are just absolutely the finest in the land can’t you see them?

        • SeabassDan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          8 months ago

          I think you honestly have to compare the things he takes credit for with the things he openly does singlehandedly. It’s not just positive vs negative and assigning responsibility blindly.

          • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
            116·
            8 months ago

            Well I mean if it wasn’t for Steve Jobs we probably wouldn’t have had iPods, iPhones, Macs etc. but besides some individual design choices it’s not like it was he personally who made them. I still think it’s still reasonable for him to have much of the credit. You can change half of the engineers and designers and still end up with the same product but if you change Steve then you wont. I think this pretty much applies to the stuff Elon is doing aswell. It’s not him building and placing the implants but without him there wouldn’t be implants to begin with.

            • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              8 months ago

              No, you can’t change out engineers and designers and get the same shit. Thats the actual talent. That is whwre the fathomless expanse of knowledge meets applicable experience. The truth is, you could change out Steve Jobs with any other charismatic face and the product would be the same because the engineers behind it are still sound. Fucking backwards ass logic is this? Being a salesmen is the least of all the challenges you face when creating new technology.

  • NegentropicBoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    8 months ago

    The implant works by reading the brain signals from the user and translating them into Bluetooth-based remote commands

    “From there, it just became intuitive for me to start imagining the cursor moving. Basically, it was like using the Force on a cursor and I could get it to move wherever I wanted,”

    Awesome.

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    8 months ago

    Yyyeah noninvasive bcis have been able to move mice for well over a decade. Nice to see they cleared this hurdle and I’m glad the dude didn’t die, but this isn’t how you do medicine.