Elon Musk who is a south African entrepreneur
and is known for finding the Tesla motors and space x promised a big thing
which sounded almost impossible and weird to some people. He said in a conference in California that he is
working on a chip called neuralink which would be implanted in human brain and
with the help of that we could directly communicate with our brain.
Our brains are made with millions of neurons cells with long spindly arms that send messages by electrical spikes those spikes and electricity travel between neurons in a chain reaction sending messages to the part of our brain that control speech or movement .When you move your arm that action started as an electrical spike up your brain.How neuralink plans to read those electrical spikes ? According to neuralink your brain cells are kind of electrical wiring and rather than just having neurons sending electrical signals.Those signals could be send and received by a chip.
Elon Musk unveiled neuralinks
implantable brain chip the version 0.9 it’s a brain computer interface to be
implanted directly into the brain by a surgical robot.So basically you just
remove a coin sized piece from your skull and when the chips is in you can just
walk around right afterwards.The chip plugs into your brain directly by tiny
microscopic threads and they connect with the neurons in your brain to receive
and send electrical signals importantly neuralink says these electrodes wont
damage your brain if they are inserted very carefully.
The chip has all-day battery life, wireless charging and its designed to wirelessly connect to your phone via Bluetooth with a range of 5 to 10 meters.
The surgery will start of expensive but Elon Musk said that it would eventually hopefully cost a couple of 1000 dollars.
Elon Musk did an experiment on 3 pigs with a chip in one of them.You can hear the neurons of the pig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgqLGDclvLk
It is also observed that the chip
was predicting the pigs movement based on brains activity which was almost
correct.
Neuralink chips can measure temperature, pressure and movement, data that could warn you about a heart attack or stroke, Musk said. The technology could help with neurological disorders, which are rooted in the inability of the brain to connect with nerves around the body. These include epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, but also paraplegia and quadriplegia following injuries to spinal nerves.It would also help with paralysis and blindness.
