When two emerging technologies meet, paralyzed people can move their limbs - just by thinking about it.
On a cold day in late 1998, Jim Jatich, 51, sat at a table in Cleveland, Ohio's MetroHealth Medical Center and donned a cloth beanie with dozens of wires protruding from its surface. He had been practicing twice a week over several months for this moment, and he was so intent on the task at hand that the magnitude of it didn't sink in until he emerged from the hospital later in the day.
"That's when it hit me," he recalls. "I got tears in my eyes, turned to my sister, and said, 'Damn, I actually moved my hand by thinking about it.'"
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