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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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        “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.