1. Brain implants are making it possible for severely disabled people to use the power of thought to communicate through a computer. 2. He is collaborating with biomedical engineers at Duke to build brain implants that would communicate with a computer through radio signals, eliminating the need for a tether. 3. Kass also opposes euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, brain implants, and commerce in human organs. 4. Researchers are also studying the possibility of brain implants or nerve regeneration as future remedies for hearing loss. 5. Similar brain implants also are being tested as a way to treat severe depression. 6. That would take a brain implant. 7. The movie stars Keanu Reeves as Johnny, an information courier with stolen data stored in an electronic brain implant. 8. The technology is almost identical to a brain implant that the FDA earlier this year allowed Medtronic to sell for patients with certain uncontrollable tremors. |