China Approves World's First Invasive Brain-Computer Interface Device

What if someone commits a crime with this thing in their brain and they claim they unexplainably lost control?

There goes another sector for Elon. 

Does it come with a subscription to NordVPN?

It's 1995 and your name is Jonny Mnemonic 

Another step closer to the Torment Nexus 🤤

Severance S3 isn't ready yet!

From the article that you probably won't read > Neural’s approved product targets quadriplegic patients aged 16 to 60 years old who cannot use their hands due to cervical nerve injuries from accidents. A small ‘brain chip’ the size of a coin is implanted in the head, reading brain signals. When a patient thinks about grabbing an object while wearing a robotic glove, the glove moves to grasp it. > Clinical trial results are promising. According to Neural, all 36 patients who participated in the trials could grasp specific objects simply by thinking. Most patients reportedly controlled the machine independently at home within a month post-surgery. Hope it does well, and brings more accessability to those with disabilities.

This will bring us Doom. By that I mean someone is going to figure out how to run Doom on it, inside your head.

Johnny Silverhand coming to a brain near you

They stick a coin in your brain to read the thoughts of disabled people. The coin controls your robotic arm.

Experience the joys of the great firewall in your brain!

Invasive as in the surgical term, not the privacy term. I am not sure why Elon's wasn't considered the first?

I'm sure this could actually help some people, it's a shame that a lot of countries and companies will absolutely not do anything like that and instead bring us nothing but a dystopia.

So this is poorly worded... for content / to drive anti china sentiment. It's a thing to help disabled people. Like that situation where you are fully paralyzed but fully awake and unable to talk?

What, so they can recreate Warframe’s debt internment colony, Fortuna? Where, if you can’t keep up with your repayments, the Repo squad hauls you away to stick your head in a server rack? Nah, mate, I’ll pass. I happen to like where my brain is, and that ain’t on some shelf crunchin numbers for the taxman.

D*** Jones is wanted for murder.

A helmet that reads your brain waves would be cool

Subscription models here we come

Does it come with ads?

No thanks. Probably as a brain reset function.

How long until the first recipient is hackmailed into servitude?

Well we already know that all technology is only used for good, so I see no reason why this would go poorly. 

This is actually a really amazing product. It’s intended to allow people with spinal injuries the ability to move their arms, legs, and body again. Basically the culmination of decades of research into what was previously a medical dream.

F*** yeah, Kiroshi optic implants coming soon

The Colonial Union Brain Pal coming to a 75 yr old near you.

I'm excited/frightened for people who are quadriplegic, but I'm trying really really hard not to think about all of the animal suffering this represents. I know Elon was torturing his share of monkeys. I accept that animal testing is necessary for advancement and safety, but it still makes me want to cry, throw up, and go to bed.

Musk must be beside himself. Time to do away with all rules. Right Muskie?

Honestly I trust China with this more than I do Musk

Ah, the social credit calculator.

"I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams, the sensibilities of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at hand - but just what is evolving, remains to be seen."

One step closer to Ghost in the shell