For decades, people with imperfect eyesight have faced a binary choice: wear corrective lenses or undergo surgery. Glasses and contacts remain the most common solution, while LASIK surgery—reshaping the cornea with high-precision lasers—has become a popular alternative for those seeking a more permanent fix. But LASIK, despite its widespread success, still requires cutting into the eye, which weakens the cornea and carries risk. Now, a surprising breakthrough suggests the next era of vision correction may not involve lasers, scalpels, or incisions at all. Instead, it may use electricity.
Continue reading… “Rewriting Vision: Electricity, Not Lasers, May Be the Future of Eye Care”Elon Musk’s company Neuralink plans to connect people’s brains to the internet by next year using a procedure he claims will be as safe and easy as LASIK eye surgery
Elon Musk on Tuesday announced in a livestream that his neurotechnology startup, Neuralink, hoped to begin implanting devices into human brains as early as next year.
Musk has invested $100 million into the secretive company since its founding in 2016, according to The New York Times, and he says he hopes it will achieve “symbiosis with artificial intelligence.”
Musk said the Neuralink system would allow for a tiny chip, known as a brain-machine interface, to be implanted into the minds of willing subjects.
The chip would be designed to stimulate the brain’s neurons using tiny flexible threads of electrodes that would be inserted into the brain in a procedure Musk said would be as safe and painless as LASIK eye surgery.
