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Published 16:27 21 Jul 2020 GMT
In news that sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, Elon Musk's company is developing a chip that'll allow you to stream music to your brain.
Now, I can't be the only person who read that and immediately thought of the Cybermen...
Maybe Musk's son, baby X, will come up with something equally impressive:
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Neuralink, the tech entrepreneur's latest startup, which has garnered upwards of $158 million in funding so far, is in the process of developing a brain-computer interface that's set to be a gamechanger.
Specifically because of its ability to stream music straight to your brain - never again will you have to worry about losing your headphones!
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Additional details about the chip are set to be made public next month, but Musk has already been dropping details about its abilities on social media.
Per the Independent, on Twitter, Musk claimed that it "could help control hormone levels and use them to our advantage (enhanced abilities and reasoning, anxiety relief, etc".
When asked if the technology could allow people to listen to music directly from their chips, the tech entrepreneur replied "Yes".
Last year, Musk said that the device would use "sewing machine-like" technology to connect the chip and the brain at an event, the New York Times reports.
The devices will be fitted through a procedure that's been compared to laser eye surgery, involving a "neurosurgical robot" fitting flexible "threads" into the brain.
A 2019 research paper added that a USB-C cable will allow for "full-bandwidth data streaming".
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It's hoped that the new device will be able to help people suffering from neurological conditions like Parkinson's, "brain injuries/autism/ALS, basically anything requiring brain calibration", as one Twitter user asked Musk.
In addition to solving "a lot of brain/spine injuries", the tech entrepreneur was asked if it could "retrain the part of the brain which is responsible for causing addiction or depression", the Independent reports.
According to the news outlet, Musk replied: "For sure. This is both great and terrifying. Everything we’ve ever sensed or thought has been electrical signals. The early universe was just a soup of quarks and leptons. How did a very small piece of the universe start to think of itself as sentient?"
To help develop the technology, Musk tweeted on July 18 asking for people with expertise with wearable technology to work for his company.
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He wrote: "If you've solved hard problems with phones/ wearables (sealing, signal processing, inductive charging, power management, etc.), please consider working at [Neuralink]."
This comes after Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket was successfully launched back in May.
