{"id":366,"date":"2005-03-31T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=366"},"modified":"2005-03-31T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T11:57:11","slug":"brainwave-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Brainwave Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/science\/story\/0,12996,1448908,00.html\">The Guardian reports that a paralyzed man has been fitted with a brain implant <\/a>&#8220;that allows him to control everyday objects by thought alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the three-hour operation, electrodes were attached to the surface of Mr Nagle&#8217;s brain. They were positioned just above the sensory motor cortex, where the neural signals for controlling arm and hand movement are produced.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn the most recent tests, performed earlier this year, Mr Nagle was able to use thought to open and close an artificial prosthetic hand and move a robotic arm to grab sweets from one person&#8217;s hand and drop them in another. <b>He has also sharpened his skills at computer games by playing the old arcade game Pong.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How cool is that?  Answer: pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}