IN October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium. As the Swiss national anthem played, organizers of the world's first cyborg Olympics hung a gold medal around Poujouly's neck. The 30-yearold, who became paralyzed after a bicycle accident in his teens, had triumphed in the tournament's most futuristic event: A video-game-like race in which the competitors controlled their speeding avatars with just their minds.
Brain racers: How paralyzed athletes used a brain-computer interface to win gold at the cyborg olympics
Tonin L.;
2017
Abstract
IN October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium. As the Swiss national anthem played, organizers of the world's first cyborg Olympics hung a gold medal around Poujouly's neck. The 30-yearold, who became paralyzed after a bicycle accident in his teens, had triumphed in the tournament's most futuristic event: A video-game-like race in which the competitors controlled their speeding avatars with just their minds.
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