Amazing Science: Brain Chip That Reads Mind

Amazing Science: Brain Chip That Reads Mind

We know that we are living in an amazing world when we hear news like these. A man in the United States has become the first person to benefit from the technology, which lets a chip read human mind. The man in question is 25 years old Matthew Nagle who was left paralyzed from the neck down in 2001 after a knife attack. As a result, he was forced to be confined to a wheelchair for life.

The amazing experiment was done at the New England Sinai Hospital in Massachusetts. The result now is that Matthew can now control things around his home using his thoughts alone! The chip embedded in his body picks up his thoughts and processes it to complete the desired action. Some of the actions being turning TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume of the Television Set.

Specialists have been working in this field since a long time to utilize the power of the mind coupled with computing technology to result in amazing capabilities and this news is just a beginning of that process. Matthew is equipped with a device called BrainGate which is made up of almost 100 hair-thin electrodes and is implanted a millimeter deep into part of the motor cortex of his brain where all the action takes place.

One of the big names involved in this achievement is the expert on neuroscience at the Brown University, Professor John Donoghue. He spoke to media about this achievement and said: “The computer screen is basically a TV remote control panel, and in order to indicate a selection he merely has to pass the cursor over an icon, and that’s equivalent to a click when he goes over that icon.”

The ultimate aim is to allow handicapped people to make use of their crippled parts to resume their normal functionalities.