Wireless Electrodes

University of Utah researchers have won about $6.7 million in federal grants
to develop wireless electrodes that would be implanted to provide blind
people with artificial vision and stimulate paralyzed body parts so that
disabled people could walk, talk, or control a computer with their thoughts. 

The Utah Electrode Array is a silicon chip measuring a quarter-inch on each
side and containing 100 tiny electrodes in a 10x10-grid. The array is
implanted under the dura, which is the membrane covering the brain. 

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