During a show-and-tell event of his health tech start-up Neuralink, Musk shared updates to its brain-implant technology. He said the implantable brain-computer interfaces could restore a person’s vision, even in those who were born blind, and restore “full body functionality” – including verbal communication and movement for people with severed spinal cords.
“We’re confident there are no physical limitations to restoring full body functionality,” the tech tycoon said.
Neuralink, which is based in San Francisco Bay Area and Austin, Texas, does not have permission from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell the device.
“Obviously, we want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device in a human, but we’ve submitted, I think, most of our paperwork to the FDA,” Musk added.
The billionaire said he’ll get one implanted in himself as well. “You could have a Neuralink device implanted right now and you would not even know. In fact, in one of these demos, I will,” he said...<<<Read More>>>....