Friday, April 16, 2004
My Way News: "FDA Approves Human Brain Implant Devices"
Apr 13, 6:34 PM (ET)

By JUSTIN POPE

(AP) Maryam Saleh, a Cyberkinetics Inc. clinical research assistant, holds a brain gate censor, which...
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BOSTON (AP) - For years, futurists have dreamed of machines that can read minds, then act on instructions as they are thought. Now, human trials are set to begin on a brain-computer interface involving implants.

Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxboro, Mass., has received Food and Drug Administration approval to begin a clinical trial in which four-square-millimeter chips will be placed beneath the skulls of paralyzed patients.