"Implants" Blogs & Blog Posts

A Dutch man who was left paralyzed from the waist down from a traffic accident in 2011 is able to walk again after doctors gave him brain and spine implants — along with a "digital bridge" device that reads his brain waves and tells his body what t...

Remember in the 2000s when "biohackers" surgically implanted magnets into their fingers to develop a "sixth sense" for electromagnetic fields? Here's a more practical reason for doing such a thing: Dr. Wat Lun, a physician in Chon Buri, Thailand, rec...

A Tesla driver can now unlock his car without using his smartphone. Thanks to a chip implanted in his hand, he will never lose his keys again.

Hundreds of recipients of retinal implants will be "in the dark" after the company makes them goes out of business—an outcome expected imminently after layoffs at Second Sight, which no longer makes the devices. These three patients, and more t...

A new implant technology has enabled three people who were completely paralyzed from the waist down to walk again with support. A neurostimulating device implanted in each patient's abdomen amplifies signals traveling from their brain down the spine...

Many of today's bionic limbs are "myoelectric," controlled by electrodes attached to theresidual limb that pick up impulses generated when the wearer consciously contracts that muscle. Those systems aren't without their challenges though, such as a d...

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