"I want a beer"

“I want a beer” … a simple and direct request, but a damn amazing one because it was uttered by a paralyzed man who’s communicating for the first time in months, thanks to a life-changing brain implant.

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In a testament to the power of science, and beer — researchers in Switzerland outfitted a 36-year-old ALS patient with a chip in his brain, which allows him to spell out sentences one letter at a time, and he used it to order up a cold one.

On top of a brew, the guy also asked caregivers for a head massage from his mother, curry and soup fed through tubes, and wanted to rock out to the band Tool. In his words, he wanted it “loud.”

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