NY-Based Company Steals Elon’s Thunder with Less Invasive, Better Brain Implant

If you’re going to *checks notes* implant a computer chip in your brain, you probably want the safest one, right?

Right???

Well, Elon Musk’s brain implant is not the safest!

There is another way to get that sweet, sweet brain implant!

New York Post:

A man afflicted with ALS has become the first person in the world to control an Amazon Alexa digital assistant through his thoughts — thanks to a brain implant created by a New York-based neurotech startup.

Synchron — a company specializing in medical technology solutions — has implanted its brain-computer interface (BCI) in a blood vessel on the brain of Mark, a 64-year-old man living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

ALS (formerly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) is a neurological disorder that affects motor neurons, the nerve cells in the brain, and the spinal cord, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Since implanting the device — which did not require open brain surgery — Mark has become the first human to use his thoughts to control an Amazon Fire tablet.

Mark can stream shows, make video calls, play music, control smart home devices, shop online, and even read books by mentally tapping on icons on the tablet, the Brooklyn-based company said in a press release to Business Wire.

Synchron’s BCI was implanted in a blood vessel on the “surface of the motor cortex of the brain via the jugular vein,” which the company said was a “minimally-invasive endovascular procedure.”

The implant allows Mark to “wirelessly transmit motor intent” from his brain to “personal devices with hands-free point-and-click.”

This technology existed years ago. It’s not even new. I remember videos of cripples using the mouse on a computer with their brain in like, 2005.

They say Musk’s implant and now this new implant work differently, though experts have claimed that everything that has been on display so far is simply old technology.

Of course, everyone is hyping it up now, because they want to roll these out and start controlling people’s thoughts as soon as possible.

These chips will literally censor your own thoughts, just like they censor your thoughts on social media right now.

Probably, one of the reasons Elon wanted to “stand up for freedom of speech” with Twitter was that he wanted to gain trust so people would allow him to implant chips in their brains.

This is not good technology. If there ever was a real brain interface – which might not even be possible, we don’t really know – it would be able to control your thoughts. You would have advertisements in your dreams.

This is lunacy.