Tuesday, September 17th 2024
Neuralink Gets FDA Go-ahead for Developing Device that Lets Blind-from-birth People See like Geordi La Forge
Neuralink, the company founded by Elon Musk that's working on brain user interfaces, announced that it received US-FDA device designation for a neural implant that lets visually impaired people see. Neuralink is calling this device "Blindsight." This paves the way for the public to participate in the development of the device. The device lets those with full vision loss, including damaged optic nerves, to see, provided that the brain's visual cortex is intact. Commenting on the development, Musk set expectations for what the very first version of the device is capable of—it interfaces with the visual cortex, and lets visually impaired people, including those that have been blind from birth, see for the first time, however, this vision is of low resolution—resembling "Atari graphics," as Musk puts it. It's what he said next that is raising eyebrows.
If Neuralink succeeds in building and deploying the first generation of "Blindsight," Musk says that future generations of the device will only grow in resolution, and acquire capabilities such as seeing the electromagnetic spectrum beyond natural human perception, such as infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar waves—something Geordi La Forge, the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise in the cult sci-fi show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" does, with his device called simply "the visor."
Sources:
Neuralink (Twitter), Elon Musk (Twitter)
If Neuralink succeeds in building and deploying the first generation of "Blindsight," Musk says that future generations of the device will only grow in resolution, and acquire capabilities such as seeing the electromagnetic spectrum beyond natural human perception, such as infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar waves—something Geordi La Forge, the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise in the cult sci-fi show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" does, with his device called simply "the visor."
18 Comments on Neuralink Gets FDA Go-ahead for Developing Device that Lets Blind-from-birth People See like Geordi La Forge
This is amazing.
Life imitating art, or is it the other way around..
The toy box is starting to open :D
So far there is nothing.
I am not sure what Neuralink is bringing new to BCI research or ocular implants.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/elon-musk-says-his-brainchip-patients-will-soon-outperform-a-pro-gamer-then-takes-a-big-old-puff-and-says-lets-give-people-superpowers/
You can haul as much load in a simple VW Passat for several decades already, but oh my this car is special!
Musk was going to drill lots of holes too. I don't know where to, yet, but it seems they rather just buried the drills altogether.
Musk is also going to bring us to Mars at some undefined moment.
All I read is Forever in Beta
Great business model, that. As long as you can keep making new promises, you don't have to deliver.
And when you do deliver, why would you have to stick to the deal you made initially, right? Or can we still charge our Tesla's for free somewhere? And how do those battery pack changes go, actually? (spoiler: its a corrupt cesspool of half broken and revised battery packs)
I trust this man about as far as I can throw him.
I am all for any technology advances that push cybernetics closer. All for the Cyberpunk style future LOL.
The guy is nothing more than an annoying clown who with the help of daddys money got lucky.
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www.thewhig.com/2012/11/28/mans-high-tech-paradise-lost
This isn`t to say that those were successful or anything but that Neuralink isn't creating anything new, those things have existed for quite a while by now.
I mentioned Dobelle because he is the most famous.
There are others like those guys who are in their second generation testing(finished one of their trials).
bionicvis.com/news/