Up to now, parents could only implant a BrainGate in hopes of supplanting hand-eye coordination with thought-control (be the ball Danny, be the ball).

ENGADGET: NeuroSky to offer thought control without those pesky brain implants

The journal Nature recently reported on two paralyzed individuals who were able to command a robotic arm to make reach-and-grasp movements by thought, using only a Braingate neural implant.

WSJ: Bionic Brains and Beyond