Visually Impaired YouTuber with 1.69 Million Subscribers
Implanting a Coin-Sized Chip in the Brain to Restore Vision
Visually impaired YouTuber OneShot Hansol (real name: Kim Hansol) has attracted attention after applying to participate in a clinical trial being conducted by Elon Musk's Neuralink.
Recently, OneShot Hansol released a video on his YouTube channel, 'OneShot Hansol', titled, "They asked if I could come to the US, so I said I could. Clinical trial to implant a chip in my brain (not clickbait)." In the video, he revealed that he had personally applied for the clinical trial of 'Blindsight', a vision restoration technology currently in development by Neuralink, the company led by Musk.
He introduced the surgery by saying, "It's not about making your eyes see, it's about making your brain see," and explained, "I heard the surgery is done by a robot and takes about an hour." He added, "The technology is really impressive, but if it's used for the wrong purposes, it could be scary. I'm also worried that my thoughts could be accessed or hacked."
OneShot Hansol expressed his conviction, stating, "We shouldn't live in a world where only those with money can see and those without money cannot. If I earn a lot of money in the future, I want to support surgery costs for those in need. If that's not possible, I might even grab Elon Musk by the collar."
After hearing the news, online users expressed both support for his potential vision restoration and concerns about the experiment.
OneShot Hansol, who operates the 'OneShot Hansol' channel with 1.69 million subscribers, is known to have gradually lost his vision after noticing abnormal symptoms in his eyesight during a bus commute in 2010.
Meanwhile, at the end of January, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, announced that Neuralink, the brain neuroscience startup he founded, was preparing a technology that would enable people who have completely lost their sight to see again.
At the time, CEO Musk stated on the social networking service X (formerly Twitter), "We are preparing our first blind vision augmentation technology and are awaiting regulatory approval." He further explained that this technology "will allow people who are completely blind to start seeing at low resolution and gradually progress to higher resolutions." Musk also noted, "The next generation of Neuralink's cybernetic augmentation technology will be unveiled at three times the performance by the end of this year."
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