{"id":18740,"date":"2015-10-25T13:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/scientists-connect-brain-to-a-basic-tablet-paralyzed-patient-googles-with-ease"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:28:58","slug":"scientists-connect-brain-to-a-basic-tablet-paralyzed-patient-googles-with-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/scientists-connect-brain-to-a-basic-tablet-paralyzed-patient-googles-with-ease","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Connect Brain to a Basic Tablet\u2014Paralyzed Patient Googles With Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nj9iQZBnmU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That was the year she learned to control a Nexus tablet with her brain waves, and literally took her life quality from 1980s DOS to modern era Android OS.<\/p>\n<p>A brunette lady in her early 50s, patient T6 suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease), which causes progressive motor neuron damage. Mostly paralyzed from the neck down, T6 retains her sharp wit, love for red lipstick and miraculous green thumb. What she didn\u2019t have, until recently, was the ability to communicate with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/10\/25\/scientists-connect-brain-to-a-basic-tablet-paralyzed-patient-googles-with-ease\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was the year she learned to control a Nexus tablet with her brain waves, and literally took her life quality from 1980s DOS to modern era Android OS. A brunette lady in her early 50s, patient T6 suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease), which causes progressive motor neuron damage. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63862,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740\/revisions\/63862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}