‘I want a beer’: Paralysed man communicates first words in months using brain implant

A completely paralysed man, who was left unable to communicate for months after losing the ability to even move his eyes, has used a brain implant to ask his caregivers for a beer.

Composing sentences at a rate of just one character per minute, the man also asked to listen to the band Tool “loud”, requested a head massage from his mother.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-computer-interface-als-beer-b2043126.html

dv said:

‘I want a beer’: Paralysed man communicates first words in months using brain implant

A completely paralysed man, who was left unable to communicate for months after losing the ability to even move his eyes, has used a brain implant to ask his caregivers for a beer.

Composing sentences at a rate of just one character per minute, the man also asked to listen to the band Tool “loud”, requested a head massage from his mother.

Cool!

dv said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-computer-interface-als-beer-b2043126.html

They want to know what I had for breakfast before Continuing.

Michael V said:

dv said:

‘I want a beer’: Paralysed man communicates first words in months using brain implant

A completely paralysed man, who was left unable to communicate for months after losing the ability to even move his eyes, has used a brain implant to ask his caregivers for a beer.

Composing sentences at a rate of just one character per minute, the man also asked to listen to the band Tool “loud”, requested a head massage from his mother.

Cool!

Well I hope he didn’t really mean he wanted to listen to The Band too loud.

Damn good news. They really need to hurry along with all this technology.

With any luck, in a decade or two I might be able to cheat death and become a living brain in a jar.

> Composing sentences at a rate of just one character per minute

That’s not fast enough.

mollwollfumble said:

> Composing sentences at a rate of just one character per minute

That’s not fast enough.

I wonder whether he got that beer.

“Aw shit son the bottle-o just closed”

well isn’t this the appropriate place for one of these that was in that other thread a while back