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Al first sight it looks like an off – center ponytail flopping at the joack of the head of a 62 year old man named jerry. But a closer look reveals that it is actually a bundle of wires entering jerry’s skull.

The purpose of the wires is to link a computer directly into Jerry’s brain. The computer responds to a tiny pinhole camera mounted on one lens of a pair of sunglasses Jerry is wearing, along with an ultrasonic rangefinder mounted on the other lens. The camera and rangfinder send minute electrical charges through 68 electrodes implanted in a small area of the surface of Jerry’s brain, allowing Jerry to perceive specks of light. Read the rest of this entry »

For four years, Hans_peter Balzmann, a lawyer suffering from Lau Gehrig’s disease, was locked within his own body. Paralyzed by the disease and unable to eat, speak, or even breathe on his own, he had relied on a respirator and feeding tube to survive. Although his mind functioned normally, he was unable to communicate with the outside world. Read the rest of this entry »