Absolutely amazing. Congratulations to all of the engineers and scientists working on this project. Please don't stop and never give up. I'm sure you'll miniaturize this in no time and make it cheaper.
Some people might have the feeling that progress is slow because of movies/games and so on... But I think our progress is amazing in all domains, and that in a few decades, some terrible limitations of the past will be overtaken.
I think it is slow, very slow indeed, that is in comparison with how fast it can actually be. Things like, patents, propriety code, competition based economic system - hinder it greatly.
This is amazing. I think this is so awesome for these guys to help people. If we can do this now imagine what we can do in 5 years. This could work with people in wheelchairs. Instead of putting the machine on there arm you could put it on their legs. This just astonishing.
This looks extremely promising! So excited for how this technology will evolve and be fine-tuned to meet the needs of our population. Btw, who the hell would downvote this? What is there to downvote? Screw you if you downvoted this.
Amazing!! Oh, I just wish I could get this awesome technology for my dad. He had a stroke 3 yrs ago and been paralyzed on the left side of his body. After almost a year of therapy, he still didnt recover fully. We're just glad he can walk now atleast with a cane but his left arm is still immobile.
Wow, that is really cool how someone also thought about the sleeve concept that bypassed the spinal cord too. I have thought about that for about 2 years now and always wondered why people didn't try it then. Reading the paper, I can see that decoding and encoding those signals must have been very difficult. I think though that it would benefit to reverse engineer a neural signal reaching the arm and hand from an uninjured person, determine common signal patterns, then see how those patterns relate to another healthy person, then we would be able to find out how unique a neural signal is between different persons. If their is a significant difference than than nothing, but if there is not a significant difference then I can see a way to use the information from a normal brain to hand signal, then reapply it to a person who has doesn't have a normal signal.
Congratulations Ian, that is some incredible progress. My brother has a C5 injury as well and it would mean everything to him just to be able to grab and manipulate things with his fingers. How can I get my brother into one of these trials?
I had a brain surgery 5 years ago, when I was 9 and my left hand is paralyzed. I can move the arm normal, just a bit slower, but my hand won't move like I want it to. I'll do these thinking exercises and maybe it'll get better after some time. I also started playing guitar, but when I want to strum with my left hand, it moves too slowly. I hope this brain implant will change the world and help people in need of this. Such an amazing device
This tecnology can be used also to control computers just by thinking, they can map the neural activity to different keyboard keys and mouse movements for example... Also if they find a way to send signals back in to the brain it can be used for brain to brain comunications, telepathy...
Truly amazing but I look forward to the day where the spinal break can be repaired and the blockage is no longer a problem a correction at that point would bring full mobility back
+GEERUP This is a stop gap measure, mechanical and machine evolution and development is simply much faster than biological development. We're gonna have mechanical human augmentation far before we have something like that. Cyborgs are what we will see in the foreseeable future.
I want to know more about the filament wrap on his forearm. Is the electrical signal sent through the skin, or was there additional surgery to provide a pathway to the muscles? Perhaps that item itself to be useful to people with different problems like muscular dystrophy, since the major problem is muscles wasting away because of under-use. TENS units were considered, but don't really provide real exercise to the muscles... this filament wrap sure looks like it could.
I do remember one day, i've read that we will be able to debuild a new path for nerve in our system. I don't know where i read it, but, it's something i 50 years could be possible.
Who in the WORLD could down thumb this? It's a baby step in helping ALL who have spinal damage or nerve damage. God gives men the knowledge - it's what we do with it that matters to mankind.
If I'm not wrong, they could even give him the perfect precision of a robot, too. For example for that guitar game he played, program all notes and play them back when he is thinking about moving his hand.
Hmm, if he has some basic connection in his nerve path, it would be interesting if the assisted indirect path aids regrowth of the spine. It's pretty cute but the best way is to rebuild the natural path, which I guess will ultimately be much easier anyway and where effort should be placed.
I was just wondering: He re-gained his functions because he did it before. But what about new things? Could children who are paralysed from birth use this technique to learn how to walk? Or could we one day use it to fly drones with our thoughts only?
so... if they are able to understand the nerve signals and decipher them they should be able to built robotic prothesis which are controlled by thoughts as well... just think about it.
This should be more popular than ex. "Kobe Bryant" in the trending section. The science and engineering advancements shown in this video are amazing, people care about the most dumbest shit these days..
Well done Ian I'm a Brain Hem triggered massive stroke survivor and a One hand & One Foot Paralysed Arthritic drummer{no assists} I made a Health help movie for all musicians now but primarily drummers but to Help all Musicians to protect their Ability Mate can you help get it into as many muso contacts you have and remember to ask those contacts to share it because stroke is the most common Long Term Incapacitator in the Western World it's a two part movie so make sure both pieces are mentioned cheers oops it's called the following Mark D White's "DRUMBEATSTROKE" 2 Part movie noise from me all info from a real doctor.highlighting danger of stroke to all. The very Best of luck to the dedicated Team working with Iain never think to yourself that us that are broken do not appreciate what you guys do in your Labs & White coats we DO ok!
This is crazy. This could so turn into kind of a matrix type of thing. where you could download a program and be able to do perfect martial arts or perfect skate tricks.
