{"id":186090,"date":"2024-03-27T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/video-shows-first-neuralink-patient-playing-mario-kart-with-his-mind"},"modified":"2024-03-27T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:25:30","slug":"video-shows-first-neuralink-patient-playing-mario-kart-with-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/video-shows-first-neuralink-patient-playing-mario-kart-with-his-mind","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-shows-first-neuralink-patient-playing-mario-kart-with-his-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first patient with a Neuralink brain-computer implant played Nintendo\u2019s Mario Kart video game with his mind in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ModdedQuad\/status\/1771298116719002100?s=20\" class=\"\">impressive new demo video<\/a>, calling it \u201clifechanging\u201d at a company-wide meeting that was posted Friday on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a wild ride,\u201d said Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old Neuralink patient, during the celebratory company meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to change the world,\u201d added Arbaugh, who\u2019s quadriplegic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/20\/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-chip-patient-chess\" class=\"\">meaning he\u2019s paralyzed below his neck from a swimming accident<\/a>, and requires the use of a wheelchair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first patient with a Neuralink brain-computer implant played Nintendo\u2019s Mario Kart video game with his mind in an impressive new demo video, calling it \u201clifechanging\u201d at a company-wide meeting that was posted Friday on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s been a wild ride,\u201d said Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old Neuralink patient, during the celebratory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186090","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}