There’s Neuralink—and There’s the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It

Mark Jackson Play a computer game with the mind. It appears on a laptop screen in three blue circles while sitting in bed. One turns red: target. Jackson manages a white circle that needs to hit the target to the target without escaping blue barriers. The game looks like a little Pac-man. Instead of a joystick, Jackson uses his thoughts to handle the small white circle. To move left, thinking of squeezing the right fist. To move the right, think about to make a row twice, as double clicks.

65 and paralyzed Jackson is good in this game. Redes in the red circle. It turns blue and satisfied Ding! Hit the target. Circles change in the next round. Moves in the next round and subsequent period and 14 times are successful. Earlier earned 100 percent in this game. Then there was still an experience.

A few years ago, surgeons in Pittsburgh implanted Jackson with experimental Brain computer interfaceor bci. Developed by New York Based Start SynchronousYes, it opens Jackson’s brain signals to commands commands in laptops and other devices. One of 10 people in the United States and one of the four people in Australia received a synchronous implant as part of the first feasibility study. In addition to the game, BCI allows him to send text messages, email him and shop online.

Jackson’s medical saga began about five years ago, while working in Georgia and worked for a wholesale flower company-dream work. He thought he was squeezing a nerve in his neck. However, in January 2021, doctors at the University of Emory said the diagnosis was more serious: Amyotrophical lateral sclerosis. A neurodehurative disease, als, the nervous cells in the nerve cord in the brain and the spinal cord, resulting in a gradual loss of muscle control. Jackson’s doctor asked for a clinical trial test to try a Als drug. Jackson said it was no brain.

Jackson in the first floor bedroom.Photo: Stephanie Strasbourg

Before the diagnosis of Als, Jackson took the woodworking board.Photo: Stephanie Strasbourg

However, until December 2022, he lost the ability to write or raise the scoop flowers in his work and stopped working. Moved only outside Pittsburgh with his brother. “Mobility loss, the loss of independence going with this disease,” Jackson says: “There are many things, this is a lot.” As the disease progresses, he tried to stay positive. When the drug test was completed in the summer of 2023, he was eager to join another research to help Als.

Synchronous BCI court was simply continued at Pittsburgh University. Although the implant slows Jackson’s progress in Als, it can return some of the autonomy that he lost to the disease. “I’m excited about it immediately,” Jackson says.

In July 2023, he began a waste of waste and six weeks later in Jackson was in the operating room. In a three-hour procedure surgeons were first entered StentrodA mesh tube associated with the size of a match is to the bitch on the bottom of the neck. Using a catheter, the device is carefully brought to the side of the head to the side of the brain, which is carefully, on the ground and the head of the brain, which manages the volunteer movement. Then they entered a small rectangular device from the bottom of the Jackson collar bone, which processed brain signals and working with infrared outside the body. These signals are collected by a paddle-shaped receiver sitting in Jackson’s chest, and then sent them through a wire to a unit that converts them into commands. When the system is closed, a pair shines from a green light shirt.