{"id":20590,"date":"2016-01-09T22:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/i-became-a-cyborg-to-feel-older-not-stronger"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:31","slug":"i-became-a-cyborg-to-feel-older-not-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/i-became-a-cyborg-to-feel-older-not-stronger","title":{"rendered":"I became a cyborg to feel older, not stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-became-a-cyborg-to-feel-older-not-stronger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really nice. I may actually see the day that I can climb Everest or K2 at 100 yrs old with my cyborg body.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I like to joke that I\u2019m technically 33 years old, but on the inside I\u2019m 65. I\u2019m less inclined to make that joke after spending 20 minutes or so inside Genworth\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/08\/icymi-aging-exoskeleton-suit-the-biometric-bed-and-more\/\">Aging Experience<\/a>\u201d exoskeleton. The R70i, which apparently is a barely coded reference to the fact that 70 percent of Americans will need some sort of long term care as they age, is a full body simulator that lets you experience what its like to lose your sight, hearing and even range of motion as the effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/10\/26\/ae-elderly-devices\/\">aging<\/a> creep in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/09\/i-became-a-cyborg-to-feel-older-not-stronger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really nice. I may actually see the day that I can climb Everest or K2 at 100 yrs old with my cyborg body. I like to joke that I\u2019m technically 33 years old, but on the inside I\u2019m 65. I\u2019m less inclined to make that joke after spending 20 minutes or so inside Genworth\u2019s \u201cAging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,23,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-humor","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68890,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590\/revisions\/68890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}