{"id":122528,"date":"2021-05-12T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/mind-over-matter-brain-chip-allows-paralysed-man-to-write"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:22:34","slug":"mind-over-matter-brain-chip-allows-paralysed-man-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/mind-over-matter-brain-chip-allows-paralysed-man-to-write","title":{"rendered":"Mind over matter: brain chip allows paralysed man to write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-over-matter-brain-chip-allows-paralysed-man-to-write3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tokyo (AFP) <\/p>\n<p>Paralysed from the neck down, the man stares intently at a screen. As he imagines handwriting letters, they appear before him as typed text thanks to a new brain implant.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old is \u201ctyping\u201d at a speed similar to his peers tapping on a smartphone, using a device that could one day help paralysed people communicate quickly and easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo (AFP) Paralysed from the neck down, the man stares intently at a screen. As he imagines handwriting letters, they appear before him as typed text thanks to a new brain implant. The 65-year-old is \u201ctyping\u201d at a speed similar to his peers tapping on a smartphone, using a device that could one day help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122528","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\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}