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A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: via Veins – WIRED

Electrodes threaded through the blood vessels that feed the brain let people control gadgets with their minds.

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Much more ambitious brain-computer interfaces and neural prosthetics have been in the news lately. Last month, Elon Musks company Neuralink demonstrated a wireless BCI with more than a thousand flexible electrodes, designed to be inserted directly into a brain by a specialized robot surgeon. (The company has so far only shown short-term use in pigs.) Inserting electrodes is tricky; while its true that brain surgery isnt exactly rocket science, it has risks whether the surgeon is a robot or not….

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