The “Stentrode” mind implant
Synchron
Rodney Gorham, a 63-year-old Australian, has all the time been a music fan. In a latest WhatsApp dialog with New Scientist, he shared his ideas on his most memorable reside occasion – “AC/DC of their prime”. However extra outstanding than that live performance is the implant that enables Gorham to speak though he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which has paralysed a lot of his physique and left him unable to talk.
The race to commercialise brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is gathering tempo, and one firm – Synchron – is main …