• jacobc436@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is great but will the implants by this company expire and stop working once it gets bought out or goes out of business, like with so many other experimental implants that worked great? (No /s) In case article goes kaput:

    ‘’’ Sticking an electrode inside a person’s brain can do more than treat a disease. Take the case of Rita Leggett, an Australian woman whose experimental brain implant changed her sense of agency and self. She told researchers that she “became one” with her device.

    She was devastated when, two years later, she was told she had to remove the implant because the company that made it had gone bust. ‘’’

    https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-implant-removed-against-her-will/