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VISION & MOVEMENT
Every year, nearly 1 million people are forced to amputate a part of their body so that a deadly disease or faulty limb does not prevent the rest of their body from functioning properly. So LINK is here to help. With LINK, no one will have to go through the pain of losing a limb ever again because prosthetic limbs will feel natural. We have designed a new & improved technology, which will connect your prosthetic limb directly to your brain so you are able to control and feel from your artificial body naturally.
MORE ABOUT US
What are we doing
THE PROBLEM
Losing a limb is one of the most painful procedures a person can go through, physically but mentally. We know that amputation requires a lot of strength. letting go of an important part of you that you've always had. We know that adjusting to life with a prosthetic limb when you previously had a real one is an extremely difficult experience
ITS IMPACT
Every single year, there are more than 1 million limb amputations globally. That’s one every 30 seconds. That is a staggering statistic. Losing a limb is one of the most painful procedures a person can go through, not just physically but mentally. Amputees are losing a part of their body with they always thought they’d have and adjusting to life as an amputee can be extremely challenging.
OUR SOLUTION
The technology we use to allow you to control your artificial limb as if they were real limbs is the Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI). A BCI is a type of technology that can read signals sent by the brain and execute them in devices such as prosthetics. In other words, a BCI system can ultimately allow utilization of technological devices such as a prosthetic arm or leg using neural synapses.
THE TECH
The type of BCI technology that LINK uses to allow you to feel prosthetic limbs with in your mind is called electrocorticography, also known as ECOG. We use this BCI for our product because it has a phenomenal scale, high temporal resolution and is mildly invasive.
WHAT DOES LINK DO
and how does it work
LINK embeds an ECoG into your brain to create currents that allow you to feel sensations from your prosthetic. This is enabled using haptic technology ingrained into the prosthetic that picks up on touch and then transmits it to your parietal lobe using an ECoG.
This enables amputees to pick up on touch and sensations in their prosthetic limb, allowing them to better understand the world around them. This will also reduce cases of phantom limb syndrome, where an amputee feels false sensations where their limb is supposed to be as the brain overcompensates for its loss.