Eight microns is still vastly bigger than the kind of wires we have in computer, you know, microchips and things like that. There's a design space where you could make something small enough to go in, but big enough to get the signal out. That's the hope.
Are we nearing the singularity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about brain machine interfaces and prosthetics you can control with your mind, with biomedical engineer Dr. Cindy Chestek and neurosurgeon Dr. Parag Patil
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