Brain Stream Ep. 4: Nathan Copeland

This week we spoke to Nathan Copeland, an individual who has received a Blackrock brain-computer interface implant in both his somatosensory cortex and motor cortex. Nathan is an invasive brain-computer interface user and neurotechnology consultant. In 2004, he was in a car accident that left him with a C5 spinal cord injury and resulting quadriplegia. He later joined the Rehab Neural Engineering Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to test brain-computer interface devices to control a robotic arm, an exoskeleton glove, play video games, and make art. His work over the last 7 years has resulted in major contributions to science. Currently, Nathan is working as a neurotechnology consultant for Blackrock Neurotech and, on his own time, has started making and selling NFTs on OpenSea drawn entirely with his brain-computer interface!

Links from this episode:

• Nathan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/bcicandobetter

• Nathan’s SuperRare: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/you-are-loved-32211

• Nathan’s OpenSea: https://opensea.io/BCIcanDoBetter

• Nathan’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bcicandobetter/

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