{"id":138999,"date":"2022-05-06T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/elon-musks-neuralink-rival-synchron-starts-human-trials-of-implants"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:22:18","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-rival-synchron-starts-human-trials-of-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/elon-musks-neuralink-rival-synchron-starts-human-trials-of-implants","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink rival Synchron starts human trials of implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2021\/07\/28\/5822901655786272083\/1024x576_MP4_5822901655786272083.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/elon-musk\/index.html\" id=\"mol-000f59a0-cc87-11ec-9812-9bdfbd9279c5\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s Neuralink rival Synchron has begun human trials of its brain implant that lets the wearer control a computer using thought alone.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u2019s Stentrode brain implant, about the size of a paperclip, will be implanted in six patients in New York and Pittsburgh who have severe paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>Stentrode will let patients control digital devices just by thinking and give them back the ability to perform daily tasks, including texting, emailing and shopping online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink rival Synchron has begun human trials of its brain implant that lets the wearer control a computer using thought alone. The firm\u2019s Stentrode brain implant, about the size of a paperclip, will be implanted in six patients in New York and Pittsburgh who have severe paralysis. Stentrode will let patients control digital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138999","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}