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...blood sugar and so on--and a satellite receiver that can track where you are. The company makes a pager-like gadget called Digital Angel that does both those things, and its engineers are doing their darnedest to cram Digital Angel's functions into a package small enough to implant. Once they do, VeriChip will be very powerful indeed. That's one of the reasons the Jacobses want to get involved. "There are endless possibilities," says Derek. "For me it's marvelous," says Leslie. "Every day I worry about my husband. We definitely feel it will make us all feel...
...machine will soon make its way from performance art venues into our living rooms. "Just as the Internet provides interactive ways of displaying information," he says, "it may allow unexpected ways of accessing the body itself. What will be interesting is when we can miniaturize these technologies and implant them directly into the body...
...Eight years ago, on a motorcycle trip to the U.K. to visit his sister, he was in an accident and broke his neck. Except for some minor movement in his shoulders, left arm and left hand, he was paralyzed below the neck. Holgersen underwent an experimental surgical procedure to implant a neural prosthesis - an interface between an electronic device and the human nervous system - to bypass the damaged stretches of his spinal cord and restore some movement to his limbs...
...device. "I move my right shoulder and see my left hand move. But I quickly got used to it, and now it feels very natural. I don't even think about it. It has become part of me and made me more independent." Thanks to the Freehand implant, Holgersen can now hold a cup, lift a fork and grasp a pen, actions he was previously unable to perform...
...objects and read with difficulty. But then as her cone cells failed, this last narrow window on the world snapped shut and she was left completely blind - even though her retina retained a healthy connection to the visual centers of her brain through a functioning optic nerve. Marie's implant splices into the live line of the optic nerve to enable her to see again...