A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)

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Oliver Whang / New York Times:A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces  —  Owen Collumb was paralyzed in 1993, when he was 21 years old.  A tire on his motorbike blew out and he fell into a ravine, breaking a single bone in his spine.