The next generation of brain controlled prosthetics will be for everyone

"We call them'flourishes'," says Aldo Faisal. "Kevin has this flourish where, because he can rotate his wrist 360-degrees either way, when he reaches for or passes you stuff he will add this flourish just for the fun of it. There's no need for him to do it, but he does it anyway. It's like if you pick up your teacup and you stretch out your pinkie finger… He doesn't think about it: he just does it." Faisal, senior lecturer in Neurotechnology at Imperial College London, is talking to WIRED about one of his'Pilots': the term given to disabled athletes taking part in the 2016 Cybathlon in Switzerland.