{"id":112258,"date":"2020-08-31T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/elon-musk-unveils-fitbit-in-your-skull-brain-chip-demonstrates-on-pig"},"modified":"2020-08-31T14:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T21:26:46","slug":"elon-musk-unveils-fitbit-in-your-skull-brain-chip-demonstrates-on-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/elon-musk-unveils-fitbit-in-your-skull-brain-chip-demonstrates-on-pig","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk unveils \u2018Fitbit in your skull\u2019 brain chip, demonstrates on pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-unveils-fitbit-in-your-skull-brain-chip-demonstrates-on-pig.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was at this webcast that Musk unveiled the latest version of his company NeuraLink\u2019s latest prototype, the Link VO.9 \u2014 a chip that would allow humans to control devices with their brains.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said this could eventually help cure people with conditions like memory loss, hearing loss, paralysis, blindness, brain damage, depression and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers of the webcast met Gertrude, a pig that had the chip implanted in her brain two months ago. A graph shown onscreen showed the waves inside Gertrude\u2019s brain, which fired when her brain communicated with her snout while she was eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was at this webcast that Musk unveiled the latest version of his company NeuraLink\u2019s latest prototype, the Link VO.9 \u2014 a chip that would allow humans to control devices with their brains. Musk said this could eventually help cure people with conditions like memory loss, hearing loss, paralysis, blindness, brain damage, depression and anxiety. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112258","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}