It was a milestone in medicine. The Neuralink brain implant opened up a new world. The first patient with a chip in his brain gave his impressions. This was the American Noland Arbaugh. His operation attracted the attention of the scientific community.
The patient indicated that the performance of the device is improving over time. He describes the experience as “amazing.” “Things have been going very well. At first there was a drop in performance. But since I started using it, [expertos de Neuralink] “They readjusted it, it went up constantly,” Arbaugh said.

Without tiredness
A quadriplegic since 2016, Arbaugh received the N1 implant in January. It is a brain chip that allows neuronal activity to be read through 1,024 electrodes distributed on 64 ultra-thin wires. According to Arbaugh, “about 15% of the total electrodes are operational” now.
“It’s a fairly small amount … and at the same time, I can do so much more now than I did at the beginning of the experiment when there was a lot more of them in my brain. It’s just mind-blowing,” he said. Arbaugh responded negatively to the question of whether the brain chip makes him tired. “I don’t get tired. I think part of the problem is that I just want to be awake all the time,” he said. He once wore his neural device for more than 17 hours straight. “The other day I couldn’t sleep so I decided to get up around 2:00 a.m. and ended up wearing it all day,” he said.

Getting moving again
The new product, called Telepathy, allows a person who has lost the use of his or her limbs to perform many activities. For example, controlling a phone, a computer and, through them, almost any device just by thinking.
In March, Neuralink published a video of Arbaugh playing chess with his mind on a computer. The first patient with a chip in his brain attracted a lot of attention. American entrepreneur Elon Musk, co-founder of the San Francisco-based company, predicted last June that “in the future there will be no phones, only Neuralinks.”