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Cochlear Implants: The Success Story If you want to know what a mature neural interface technology looks like—not experimental, not research-only, but actually working in the real world at scale—look at cochlear implants. Over a million people worldwide have them. Children born deaf get implanted before their first

Sensory Feedback: Restoring Touch Nathan Copeland lost his arm in a car accident when he was eighteen years old. Ten years later, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh asked him an extraordinary question: would you like to feel again? They implanted electrodes in his somatosensory cortex—the region of the

Synthesis: The Cyborg Future Let's pull it all together. Over the past seven articles, we've tracked neural interfaces from the bleeding edge to the mundane. From Neuralink's first patient playing chess with his mind to the million-plus cochlear implant recipients who barely think about