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🎨 Using a Brain Implant to Create Art Audrey Crews, Neuralink’s first female PRIME trial participant, is using her intracortical brain-computer interface to create digital art after a spinal cord injury left her without hand movement. The implant records activity from her motor cortex and decodes intended movement into cursor control. That allows Crews to use computer-based drawing tools through deliberate neural input, with finished works listed for sale through the NeuraArt Studio webshop. The art story is one of several use cases explored by Neuralink’s early users. In an update published earlier this year, Neuralink showed participants using the implant for computer control, gaming, social media, learning, and more technical workflows. Noland Arbaugh has used the system to work, learn, livestream, and play video games. Alex has used it for CAD design and Arduino coding. Brad, who has ALS, has used Telepathy to support communication outside the home. All have received a great deal of autonomy, which they previously lost through neurodegenerative disease or spinal cord injury. 🌐 Explore more of Audrey’s work below.