Can an Implanted Chip Record Sensations?
From: Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry - April 2002 - page 26

A cybernetics professor at Reading University (UK) has become the first human
to have a computer chip directly connected to his central nervous system.
According to researchers, the technology could one day be used to improve the
quality of life for individuals with certain forms of paralysis. 

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