002 For the sake of dreams, try it yourself
Back to the big dormitory upstairs of the laboratory, in fact, the laboratory was originally a three-story building covering an area of more than 200 square meters bought in the suburbs, the garage and warehouse on the first floor, the small laboratory on the second floor, and the dormitory on the third floor.
From the analysis of the news, this lockdown may last for more than a month, of course, this is not too big for those who are used to staying at home, you can find out where the technical defects are......
It's just that in the last month, all the hardware equipment has been checked from start to finish, and no defects have been found, and there are still no problems in animal testing, so it is more likely that the problem is still with the experimenters.
The tester was a teenager with myasthenia gravis, his muscles had been severely degenerated, and he had been lying in bed for many years, so there were some unknown reasons that caused the boy to fall into a deep sleep directly, like a vegetative person who could not wake up, if it was a completely healthy person, the possibility of failure of the test should not be great, at least it would not make people unconscious.
When I returned to the laboratory, I looked at the mouse that had done the chip implantation test, still alive and vibrant, and it was very moisturizing, and it had been a few months, and there was still no abnormality.
I really don't believe that this kind of passive chip implanted under the scalp will make a person fall asleep, but the facts are in front of him, the teenager has been sleeping for more than a month, and he still hasn't woken up, like a vegetative person, and he can't find out the reason.
The relevant technical drawings of the implantable chip were called up from the computer, and the investigation was started again, starting with the most basic implantable chip.
In fact, the implanted chip is not complicated at all, it is a passive chip with a special circuit made of graphite and nanosilver.
The whole chip is no more than 0.1 mm thick and 3 mm long and wide, and the microchip contains about 90,000 special circuits with a scale of only a few microns, and its main function is to collect, rectify, convert and output brainwave information of the brain.
It needs to be combined with a special external helmet and a very complex small server to perfectly decode the brainwave signal and convert it into digital information.
Of course, this set of implanted chips can not only be read, but also can be converted into nerve cell pulse signals by inverting digital information......
The implanted chip outer coating, made of biocompatible materials, has long been commercially available on the market, so there is no risk, and the chip itself is a passive chip, so no matter what, as long as the special helmet is removed, the information stimulation will stop, so I really can't think of how this technology can make people unconscious.
In addition, the implantation method is also very simple, the diameter of the electrode chip is only one millimeter after curling, and it can also be implanted under the skin with an ordinary syringe, accompanied by a drop of normal saline solution injected under the scalp, the electrode chip will be expanded in the normal saline, and as the normal saline is absorbed, the electrode chip will be implanted, and the risk of the whole process can be completely ignored.
Therefore, the accident caused by the chip implantation can be ruled out, and the material problem can also be ruled out, and the implantation process is no problem, and all the problems return to the particularity of the tester's physique......
"Maybe you should implant yourself to see the situation, maybe you can find out where the problem is, and there is a complete set of backup implantable electrode chips in the laboratory, which can be implanted by yourself." I suddenly felt the need to implant myself to see how it was.
I couldn't bear to think of this, so I tried to do the experiment myself, and after thinking about it for a long time, I finally decided to implant myself to see the situation.
In fact, I used to think about trying it myself, but I never put it into action, but now I don't have to do it myself, and I can't find the reason for it.
Of course, the most important thing is that after more than a month of careful inspection and analysis, it has been determined that the problem should not appear in technology, so the risk factor of the test is really not high, maybe lower than the probability of being hit by a car when crossing the road, it is indeed worth a try.
Semi-implantable chips are not just a chip, in fact, the whole system needs to be implanted with dozens of pieces, and then with a special helmet decoded, it can read the brain thinking with extreme precision, and even through the special device on the helmet, directly input visual and auditory perceptual information to the cerebral cortex.
It can even synthesize tactile information, at least theoretically, because all tactile sensations are just a trace of bioelectric signals transmitted back from nerve endings, but the real sense of touch is synthesized by the brain.
Just like some people can have phantom limb pain, even if a person has no hands for a long time, they can feel the sharp pain coming from that hand, which is actually just a tactile information synthesized by the brain.
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After a quick lunch, I came to the laboratory again, although I had never shaved my head, but I had to go out for the test, and I picked up the electric clipper and shaved my head in minutes.
Everything is ready, lying on the experimental table, although a little nervous, but still click the confirmation button on the left hand screen, and then the implantation procedure begins, the laser scanner quickly locates the brain, and after a little calibration, the implanted device transformed into the robotic arm also begins the implantation procedure of the electrode chip.
Hundreds of electrode chips, and there is no one-time implantation, but the control area of the motor function area was implanted first, more than 30 chips were implanted, and more than 30 small packets were puffed up, like being bitten by mosquitoes for dozens of bites, although the whole process was not very comfortable, but it was not much pain.
After waiting for a few hours for the saline to be completely absorbed and there were no adverse reactions, I then put on the special helmet that looked very simple but actually took a lot of thought, and after roughly calibrating the position of the electrode chip implanted under the skin, I started to read the brain wave signal in the cerebral cortex......
The extremely rudimentary virtual person on the screen moved smoothly with the ideas in the brain, and as the experiment continued, the data was constantly adjusted, and the control became easier and easier, and the reaction speed and accuracy could be said to be quite high.
Just after less than half an hour of training to successfully complete crawling, walking, running, jumping and other actions, the signal reading accuracy of the motion control unit can be said to be quite high, which is not unusual at all, in fact, it has already completed the test on the monkey, the monkey of the test can control the mechanical arm to grab the apple to eat.
The first step of the trial was done with ease, but there was not much excitement, because the result was not surprising at all.
After completing the brainwave reading and completing the motor relay chip implantation, he lay down on the experimental table again, and continued to start the chip implantation of the next functional area, this time the cerebral cortex in charge of the sense of touch, but this visual processing is very difficult, at least from the description of the teenager, the vision is more like a touch, function and another simpler device that supplements simple vision with the help of the tongue.
Of course, with the assistance of semi-implantable chips, perhaps the accuracy will be improved, no longer a simple hundreds of electromagnetic contacts, simulating the general outline of the object, under the comprehensive action of more than 30 electrode chips, there should be a chance to form tens of thousands of electromagnetic stimulation points......
If the future test goes well, it should be able to help many people with visual impairments, of course, if it is used with some detection equipment, it can completely enhance human vision, such as with infrared detectors, you can observe the world in infrared mode, with the help of special radar can also detect electromagnetic wave reflection, bioelectricity and so on.
Of course, these things can be easily achieved by matching AR eyes, but there is no need to implant chip assistance, the real application of this technology is still used to create a real virtual reality game cabin, to experience quite perfect virtual reality, unlike the current use of two screens and two magnifying glasses to fool people.
After thinking for a while, he finally pressed the electrode chip implantation procedure to assist vision, and it was a long and slightly uncomfortable implantation process, and more than 30 small packets slightly bulged out of the visual cortex of the back of the brain.
More than 30 extremely thin electrode chips were implanted, assisted by special saline, and slowly unfolded to form an electrode matrix that covered the skull in the functional area responsible for vision.