Building a Bionic Spine

Building a Bionic Spine
By Samir 04:51, 17 September 2007 (UTC). Modified by Delldot 07:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Australian neurologist Tom Oxley was on vacation in the US in November 2010 when he decided to do a bit of work. So he pitched an electrode array for reading brainwaves to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Military Prosthetics program. Instead of requiring invasive surgery to implant directly into the brain, Dr. Oxley's electrode array could be threaded into a vein passing through the brain.

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