29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, a quadriplegic, says the brain implant has allowed him to play chess and Civilization on his PC using his mind. 'I’m so freaking lucky to be a part of this,' he says.
    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 年前

      Yep, there’s already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 年前

        “Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under…”

        Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.