Aug 16, 2015
Body-hackers: The People Who Turn Themselves into Cyborgs
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: cyborgs
Biohackers are installing USB drives in their fingertips and growing third ears on their arms. Welcome to the world of DIY cyborgs.
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Aug 13, 2015
Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience
You may remember neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis — he built the brain-controlled exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to kick the first ball of the 2014 World Cup. What’s he working on now? Building ways for two minds (rats and monkeys, for now) to send messages brain to brain. Watch to the end for an experiment that, as he says, will go to “the limit of your imagination.”
Aug 10, 2015
Meet the designer behind these incredibly lifelike prosthetics
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
Aug 9, 2015
WATCH: The dawn of the bionic man
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature’s own designs. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab’s Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that’s both technical and deeply personal — with the help of ballroom dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis, who lost her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and performs again for the first time on the TED stage.
Aug 5, 2015
These scientists have engineered a new, lightweight bionic hand
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: cyborgs, transhumanism
Aug 4, 2015
A (Very) Brief History of Death
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: bionic, biotech/medical, cryonics, cyborgs, education, evolution, futurism, health, information science, life extension, science, transhumanism
“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” — Winston Churchill
Death still enjoys a steady paycheck, but being the Grim Reaper isn’t the cushy job that it used to be.
Aug 1, 2015
Bionic Eye Restores Woman’s Vision
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: cyborgs, transhumanism
Watch the video Bionic Eye Restores Woman’s Vision on Yahoo News. Carmen Torres is the first to receive the life-changing implant in Florida.
Jul 26, 2015
Children With Prosthetics Could Soon Be Creating Their Own Lego Attachments
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
Imagine being able to snap a mechanical digger or a Star Wars spaceship onto the end of your arm. With the next level of prosthetic designs from Lego, this could soon be a playtime reality for kids with prosthetic limbs.
Jul 19, 2015
Google Futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll all be cyborgs by 2030 — Guia Marie Del Prado — Business Insider
Posted by Seb in categories: cyborgs, Ray Kurzweil
Imagine accessing Wikipedia just by thinking about it. It sounds like science fiction now, but futurist and Google engineer Ray Kurzweil thinks that reality is just a few years away.
At the Exponential Finance conference on June 3, he predicted that humans will be cyborgs by 2030, according to CNNMoney. Read more:
Jul 15, 2015
One day soon, amputees will be able to control their prosthetic limbs with their minds.
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
One day soon, amputees will be able to control their prosthetic limbs with their minds. http://voc.tv/1cRrjAQ.
