Human implanted microchips are back in the news after biotech company Blackrock Neurotech, based in Salt Lake City, announced last month that it has already implanted brain chips in dozens of patients.
Connecting directly to technology
“We are the only company with direct-brain BCI implants in humans,” Marcus Gerhardt, Blackrock’s co-founder, told the Daily Mail. “Our implantable arrays have enabled people to connect directly to computers, control robotic arms and wheelchairs, play video games, even regain sensation – with just their brain signals.”
Stimulating electrical signals
Blackrock’s technology uses an implantable microchip that has 96 arrays – small needle-shaped brain chips – that can read and stimulate electrical signals. It can be placed anywhere on the brain’s surface. Multiple devices
