{"id":94627,"date":"2019-08-10T00:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T07:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-transhumanist-russian-student-who-lost-sight-after-explosion-developing-bionic-eyes-for-himself"},"modified":"2019-08-10T00:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T07:42:26","slug":"the-transhumanist-russian-student-who-lost-sight-after-explosion-developing-bionic-eyes-for-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-transhumanist-russian-student-who-lost-sight-after-explosion-developing-bionic-eyes-for-himself","title":{"rendered":"The transhumanist: Russian student who lost sight after explosion developing bionic eyes for himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-transhumanist-russian-student-who-lost-sight-after-explosion-developing-bionic-eyes-for-himself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evgeny became wider known to the Russian public in March, after becoming one of the first to implant a chip \u2013 between his thumb and forefinger \u2013 even though such surgical procedures are forbidden in Russia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>He sleeps two hours a night, plays guitar with a custom prosthesis, and has illegally implanted a microchip. When Evgeny Nekrasov was disfigured by an accident at 14, he decided to leverage future technology to build a new life.<\/p>\n<p>Evgeny, now 21, has no recollection of<em> \u201cmessing around\u201d<\/em> after school with his friends in hometown Vladivostok and picking up the gas canister that exploded in his hands and into his face.<\/p>\n<p>But the days after he woke up without sight in hospital are hard-coded in his memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeny became wider known to the Russian public in March, after becoming one of the first to implant a chip \u2013 between his thumb and forefinger \u2013 even though such surgical procedures are forbidden in Russia. He sleeps two hours a night, plays guitar with a custom prosthesis, and has illegally implanted a microchip. When [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94627","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}