{"id":106989,"date":"2020-05-12T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T06:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cutting-edge-brain-implant-lets-paralyzed-man-move-and-feel-again"},"modified":"2020-05-12T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T06:02:58","slug":"cutting-edge-brain-implant-lets-paralyzed-man-move-and-feel-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cutting-edge-brain-implant-lets-paralyzed-man-move-and-feel-again","title":{"rendered":"Cutting-Edge Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed Man Move and Feel Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cutting-edge-brain-implant-lets-paralyzed-man-move-and-feel-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team saw some early successes regarding movement \u2014 the initial goal of the BCI \u2014 allowing Burkhart to press buttons along the neck of a \u201cGuitar Hero\u201d controller.<\/p>\n<p>But returning touch to his hand was a much more daunting task. By using a simple vibration device or \u201cwearable haptic system,\u201d Burkhart was able to tell if he was touching an object or not without seeing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely strange,\u201d Burkhart told <em>Wired<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s still not normal, but it\u2019s definitely much better than not having any sensory information going back to my body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team saw some early successes regarding movement \u2014 the initial goal of the BCI \u2014 allowing Burkhart to press buttons along the neck of a \u201cGuitar Hero\u201d controller. But returning touch to his hand was a much more daunting task. By using a simple vibration device or \u201cwearable haptic system,\u201d Burkhart was able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}