Look here chaps, paralysis took the chat away from two poor gals. One got a fancy disease, and the other got hit by a stroke. But they remember how to make words, mind ya!
So, these fellas smack in these tiny brain doodads and boom! The ladies are gabbing away on a computer, almost as fast as ye could down a pint. We're talking 62 and 78 words per darn minute! That's several times faster than the last fastest thing, whatever that was. And there’s some brainy papers published by some smarty teams explaining all this science jibber-jabber.
Now they're saying that they can give paralyzed folks the gift of gab with the accuracy of an arrow in the bullseye! Some bloke named Frank Willet from some brainy lab in Stanford is saying this. Another team in San Francisco is saying the same.
Though it's slower than your normal pub chat rate of 160 words per minute, these science blokes are over the moon saying they're close to using these brain doodads in normal, everyday life. One bloke, Marc Slutzky at this fancy university, seems real excited about it.
Here's how it works: This brain thingy scoops up brain signals, decodes them, and then tells an external device what to do. Turns out these contraptions have already helped paralyzed folks to control robotic arms, play video games, and send emails - all with their mind!
In the end, it blows me mind seeing how these brainy blokes keep coming up with such nonsense stuff. I swear honest to god, I would have just used good old-fashioned sign language or a pen and paper! At least, the gals wouldn't have had to end up looking like porcupines with wires sticking out their heads, eh?
Based on the original article "Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New Records".
