IIRC dude went home and played Civ all night
Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says
Windex007@lemmy.world 5 months agoIt was working for a while for the guy. He was paralyzed from the neck down and he was able to use it to play some lame game like LoL or something.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Yeah I seen a money kinda play pong on it. It was cool and all but not ripping at your skull cool.
It sucks bc there are real companies developing the tech for an amazing cause. Elon is a dip shit that has no clue on how to run a company and he is actually hurting the research.
curiousPJ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You don’t even need to be inserting probes to be able to do that…
OCZ had this ‘toy’ out in 2008.
www.newegg.com/p/N82E16826100006
reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
ok but the real interesting stuff like reading hand writing from a paralyzed person imagining writing it and etc are all only for actual electrodes in brains.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This thing seems to be a later iteration of the Atari Mindlink idea from the 1980s, which presented the illusion of controlling the game with just your thoughts/brain waves/whatever but which was actually just reading the neuromuscular voltage from your forehead (meaning you scrunch your forehead muscles around to control it).
deafboy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I still have this, but suspect it’s bricked after I’ve pressed the “do not press” button on the side. (i’m a filthy button pusher) If anybody has some firmware dumps or at least documentation, I’d appreciate it.
Never managed to use the brainwaves, but it was sensitive to the facial muscle movement. Good enough to play pong.