With brain implants, the future s gonna be weird
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Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio use brain-computer interfaces to study what happens when stutterers speak.Billy Calzada / Staff file photo
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup in Austin, has a monkey that can play video games with its mind.
At least, that’s what the company claims in a video featuring a 9-year-old macaque named Pager who has two Neuralinks in his noggin.
Musk compares the implants to “a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires.” Each coin-sized device has thousands of electrodes on thread-thin wires that reach a few centimeters into the wearer’s motor cortex.