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Nov 9, 2022

Brainwave-reading implant lets paralyzed man spell out 1,100 words

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A paralyzed man who cannot speak or type was able to spell out over 1,000 words using a neuroprosthetic device that translates his brain waves into full sentences, US researchers said Tuesday.

“Anything is possible,” was one of the man’s favorite phrases to spell out, said the first author of a new study on the research, Sean Metzger of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Last year the team of UCSF researchers showed that a called a brain-computer interface could translate 50 very common when the man attempted to say them in full.

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