View gallery. (REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe) Every now and then, a scientist comes along who is so dedicated to their work that they decide to experiment on themself. Phil Kennedy is one of those scientists. As MIT Technology Review's Adam Piore reported, the neuroscientist who pioneered the technology used to connect the human brain to a computer decided to get his own brain implant in 2014. Brain computer interfaces, or BCIs, are devices that record the the electrical activity of hundreds of brain cells and translate them into signals that can be used to control things like computers or robotic limbs. Some BCIs...
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