A device that zaps the spinal cord gave paralyzed people better control of their hands
MIT Technology Review -

Fourteen years ago, a journalist named Melanie Reid attempted a jump on horseback and fell. The accident left her mostly paralyzed from the chest down. Eventually she regained control of her right hand, but her left remained “useless,” she told reporters at a press conference last week.  Now, thanks to a new noninvasive device that…

In related news