{"id":97015,"date":"2019-10-03T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-cyborg-magician-implanted-26-microchips-and-magnets-in-her-body"},"modified":"2019-10-03T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:24:56","slug":"a-cyborg-magician-implanted-26-microchips-and-magnets-in-her-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-cyborg-magician-implanted-26-microchips-and-magnets-in-her-body","title":{"rendered":"A cyborg magician implanted 26 microchips and magnets in her body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cyborg-magician-implanted-26-microchips-and-magnets-in-her-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>L AS VEGAS \u2014 At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/09\/01\/biohacker-conference-las-vegas\/\" rel=\"\">biohacker conference<\/a> convened here the other day, panelists took to the stage, settled into their chairs, and launched into their slide decks. Not Anastasia Synn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cn-v5XUl35c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With Frank Sinatra crooning \u201cI\u2019ve Got You Under My Skin\u201d over the loudspeakers, Synn pulled out a giant needle and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cn-v5XUl35c#t=1h41m20s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twisted it deeper and deeper into her left forearm<\/a> as the music played on. It was only after finishing her routine, capped off by loud applause from the crowd of biohackers, that Synn sat down for a fireside chat about her work as a \u201ccyborg magician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Synn has 26 microchips and magnets implanted throughout her body. Unlike many biohackers who experiment purely out of personal interest, Synn does it for her magic career. These days, she\u2019s doing less performing on stage and spending more time designing bodily implants for other magicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L AS VEGAS \u2014 At a biohacker conference convened here the other day, panelists took to the stage, settled into their chairs, and launched into their slide decks. Not Anastasia Synn. With Frank Sinatra crooning \u201cI\u2019ve Got You Under My Skin\u201d over the loudspeakers, Synn pulled out a giant needle and twisted it deeper and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1499,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97015","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}