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A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text | Tom Oxley | TED Tech

The TED Interview

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How Your Brain Is Meant to Work

Graham felstead, an incredible human being suffering with a l s, became the first person in the world to receive and use one of these brain computer interfaces. The breakthrough is bes i could deliver to other conditions like epilepsy, depression and dementia. What's really got me thinking is the future of communication. Have you ever considered how hard it is to express how you feel? You have to self reflect, package the emotion into words and then use the muscles of your mouth to speak those words. For some people with certain conditions, that's impossible. So what if, rather than using your words, you could throw your emotion just for a few seconds and have them really feel how you feel at

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