For more than a decade, Gert-Jan Oskam has been trying to re-learn to walk again after a motor bike accident in his 20s paralyzed him from the hips down, but with the the help of digital implants in his brain and spine, Oskam is back on his feet. NBC News’ Josh Lederman reports.
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We are actually here???
This is entirely redundant and worthless because a complete cure for paralysis was already achieved nine years ago using olfactory stem cells. Anyone who wants to learn more about this can look up the case of Darek Fidyka.
Great news! Huge admiration & thank you to all who made this possible!
❤❤❤
Next I hope this technology can cure all mental illness related to chemical imbalance.🙏
Incredible! Both the tech and the human body’s ability to adapt.
Head transplant around the corner
I’m just going to call it a neural bypass
Wow!
My dad who is not alive now but he was paralyzed and had a stimulator put in his spine. He actually started walking again like this guy, but eventually he couldn't walk again.
Wow! This is incredible, I wish him all the best.
Watch the guy ride a motorcycle again and get F up😂
imagine if someone hack it
If taken to it's logical conclusion, you could be solely a human brain with a spinal cord inside and controlling a fully mechanical body if all the wiring is placed correctly on the spinal cord. Jesus Christ this is amazing.
religion could never
Mind muscle connection
Glory to God
Thank God
Folks be wise…leading up to mark of the beast. Chip
This should lead every news show for the next 10 days
This is what we mean by progressive thought science should always be funded
I love thisssss
Science > Jesus
Best thing about this technology is that this is only the beginning. Now that it works, it's only going to keep getting better.
This is truly history in the making. Even if better methods are found in the future. This does and should give hope for those paralyzed that they too can someday stand and walk again. I can't imagine the emotions this Man is feeling taking steps again when an accident robbed him of that ability so long ago. 😮🙏🏼
I thought nerves were capable of learning and reestablishing motor function on their own, with enough rehabilitation… so to my knowledge, the only thing they needed to do was bridge the spinal break in communication… not necessarily include AI.
Unless maybe they want the ability to control his movements.
This is wild
To be continued…I wish him the best…but sometimes things happen for a reason…if the cure is to get something implanted into the brain… I'd rather not…but that's just me…
Wonderful ❤
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.
Elon musk is desperate to sell the idea on his neuralink and the lie is that it'll fix all these diseases in your brain and your body like Alzheimer's but it's BS because he just wants to get it in your brain so he can control you through A.I. "Artificial Intelligence". The elites are after our brains and they want to control us and make us their slaves by putting everybody's minds on the cloud and then everyone will have access to your thoughts on the internet.
Just like the lie was to sell Facebook, they told everyone that it would bring everyone together when all's it did is separate everyone by keeping everybody in the house all day talking to dozens of strangers they don't even know hundreds of miles away that they'll never even meet through an artificial device (computer).
Can anyone tell me the real need for Facebook? because everything you can do on Facebook you can do in real person just like we've always been doing way before Facebook came around. Except for maybe talking to family members we never knew in another country but what's the point? Why because you feel obligated to talk to someone just because they're your blood relatives when Jesus said we're all family in spirit anyways? And you'll more than likely never even see them anyways and at what cost? of being totally lonely when you can just talk to the people that are around you.
Meanwhile Elon Musk is still killing monkeys.
This is an fantastic collaboration research including Swiss and french doctors . Team work !
Science Fiction comes true again.
OMG beautiful! Unbelievable medical miracles.
"… Gentlemen, we can rebuild him… Faster, Stronger, Better than Before"…, "6 Million Dollar Man", TV Series; 1974-1978.
Best Wishes for Him & His Team.
Whoa
Good for him. 😊
Elon's sweatin' now….
That’s crazy!! Even if he can’t walk that much, it’s enough for him to be independent!!
A real bionic person in the making.. ❤
That's awesome, but that walker wouldn't be my first choice. My walker has a seat to it and makes me less anxious.
It was mentioned that the research was published in Nature. Please include links articles in the description.
wild!! first digital human !!!! hope they find the ultimate method in his lifetime !!!!!
Christopher Reeve would be proud…
Sorry ..but what is crated to be used for good will ultimately be used for evil ……we shall see where this will go
This has to be one of the wildest advances in fixing paralysis I've ever seen. Wireless!? Freaking wireless!? Did not see that coming. The potential applications are endless.
People bash science 24/7 and praise and thank god in the same sentence. I dont see anybody's god doing anything like this..
Pray 🙏 for him his family hope pray he walk away