2021-05-22 09:06:44
British English. Pre-intermediate level. Audio.
Brain implant lets man write using thoughts.
A man who cannot move his arms or hands has used his thoughts to write on a computer
screen. The man has been paralyzed from the neck down for almost a decade. Scientists from Stanford University in the USA implanted two
tiny sensors into the man's brain. The scientists gave this method two names - "brain-to-text" and "mindwriting". The man wants to
remain anonymous, so scientists have called him T5. He became paralyzed after suffering a
spinal cord injury ten years ago. The implants have allowed T5 to use his mind to write. He can write 90 characters (about 18 words) per minute. This is five words slower than the
average person writing a text message on a smartphone.
The mindwriting system is very simple, but it involved a lot of advanced technology. Scientists asked T5 to imagine holding a pen and then writing a sentence on a paper. The sensors in T5's brain
detected the activity in his brain as he imagined writing. A computer
decoded this activity into text on a screen. The scientists used a special algorithm to do this. Professor Jaimie Henderson, a Stanford University
researcher, hopes this
research could help millions of paralyzed people, and those who have lost the ability to speak, to write again. He said: "The
goal is to
restore their ability to communicate by text." This technology may one day help anyone to write at the speed of thought.
Brain [breɪn] мозг.
Screen [skriːn] экран, дисплей.
Tiny [ˈtaɪnɪ] крошечный, крохотный, малюсенький.
Remain [rɪˈmeɪn] оставаться.
Spinal cord [spaɪnl kɔːd] спинной мозг.
Average [ˈævərɪʤ] обычный, среднестатистический, рядовой.
Detect [dɪˈtekt] обнаружить.
Decode [ˈdiːkəʊd] расшифровывать.
Researcher [rɪˈsɜːʧə] исследователь, научный сотрудник.
Research [rɪˈsɜːʧ] исследование, исследовать.
Goal [gəʊl] цель.
Restore [rɪsˈtɔː] восстановить.
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