{"id":2767,"date":"2025-06-04T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/neuralink-rival-implants-mind-reading-chip-in-human-brain-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:08:20","slug":"neuralink-rival-implants-mind-reading-chip-in-human-brain-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/neuralink-rival-implants-mind-reading-chip-in-human-brain-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink rival implants mind-reading chip in human brain for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-04 14:08:19<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A rival to Elon Musk&#8217;s Neuralink has successfully tested a brain chip by briefly inserting it into a patient&#8217;s head during surgery before quickly removing it again.<BR><br \/>\nUS tech firm Paradromics carried out the bold move last month during a brain operation at the University of Michigan.<BR><br \/>\nThe patient, who was being treated for epilepsy, agreed to take part in the first-ever test of the company\u2019s high-tech brain implant.<BR><br \/>\nMatt Angle, CEO of Paradromics, explained: &#8220;There&#8217;s a very unique opportunity when someone is undergoing a major neurosurgical procedure. They&#8217;re going to have their skull opened up and there&#8217;s going to be a piece of brain that will be imminently removed. Under these conditions, the marginal risk of testing out a brain implant is actually very low.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe test gave scientists a rare chance to see how the coin-sized chip works inside the brain without long-term risks.<BR><br \/>\nThe tiny device is smaller than a 5p coin and bristles with 420 microscopic needles designed to poke into the brain and read signals from individual neurons.<BR><br \/>\nAngle explained: &#8220;By having proximity to the individual neurons, you can get the highest-quality signal.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDespite the hype, these chips don\u2019t dig into a person&#8217;s private thoughts. They pick up on the brain\u2019s electrical signals linked to movement and translate them into actions, like moving a hand or clicking a mouse.<BR><br \/>\nExperts reckon it could one day help paralysed people control devices just by thinking.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-04 14:08:19 A rival to Elon Musk&#8217;s Neuralink has successfully tested a brain chip by briefly inserting it into a patient&#8217;s head during surgery before quickly removing it again. US&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}