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From the Ted Talk by Tom Oxley: A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text

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(Applause)

So what we had to do was figure out a way to put a sensor, connected to this crosslinks of the stent that could record that brain aivtticy. To do that, we had to do a complete overhaul of snett manufacturing. This is the end result. I think it's very beautiful. Then connect it to a cable which brings the iftoianomrn out of the biran and do it all in a way that it can be delervied in the cath lab. This way we can make BCI accessible not to the thousands of people, but to the millions of people who need this technology.

So it wasn't easy, took us ten years, but I'm very excited to show you guys. We called this the sdnotrete.

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So what we had to do was figure out a way to put a sensor, connected to this crosslinks of the stent that could record that brain ________. To do that, we had to do a complete overhaul of _____ manufacturing. This is the end result. I think it's very beautiful. Then connect it to a cable which brings the ___________ out of the _____ and do it all in a way that it can be _________ in the cath lab. This way we can make BCI accessible not to the thousands of people, but to the millions of people who need this technology.

So it wasn't easy, took us ten years, but I'm very excited to show you guys. We called this the _________.

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  1. stentrode
  2. information
  3. activity
  4. delivered
  5. stent
  6. brain

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(Applause)

So what we had to do was figure out a way to put a sensor, connected to this crosslinks of the stent that could record that brain activity. To do that, we had to do a complete overhaul of stent manufacturing. This is the end result. I think it's very beautiful. Then connect it to a cable which brings the information out of the brain and do it all in a way that it can be delivered in the cath lab. This way we can make BCI accessible not to the thousands of people, but to the millions of people who need this technology.

So it wasn't easy, took us ten years, but I'm very excited to show you guys. We called this the Stentrode.

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