PBS NewsHour

How typing sentences by simply thinking is now possible

Clip: 03/15/2017 | 6m 26s

For decades, researchers have worked to find and create more direct connections between the human brain and computers. New groundbreaking technology may now help improve the lives of people who are paralyzed or experience severe limb weakness due to illness such as ALS. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports.

Aired: 03/15/17

Rating: NR

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