http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/...00804081227.htm
That's pretty much it...the first artificial replacement limb that can be controlled by thoughts has been approved for human testing.
Tune in next week for cyber psychosis!
Jokes aside, cool!
Jokes aside, cool!
That's definitely an Obvious Cyberlimb...but I'm wondering if there's any sort of strength enhancement on it myself.
I'm trying to find an article I read in a Nat Geo in a dentist's office, I can't seem to find it.
It's a cyber arm, currently in testing, but real-life testing by a one-armed woman who owns a daycare. It isn't brain controlled, but hooks up to the arm in certain places to read the electrical impulses that would be sent to the stump and otherwise fizzle out.
Probably common knowledge, but Rush Limbaugh has 2 cochlear implants to fix a genetic deafness.
Also, cybereyes, very primative but it's a start: http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/08/telesco...ved-by-the-fda/
There is another eye implant I can't seem to find, but it involves thin electronic receptors implanted in the eye. I don't 100% recall how they're supposed to work, but they can restore blurry vision to the blind. Here's a different approach to an eye implant http://www.gizmag.com/australian-bionic-ey...d-vision/14680/
Here is the beginning of the Matrix, http://www.physorg.com/news124723221.html
Rudimentary mind controlled videogames. If that isn't enough for you, Sony currently has a couple of patents for some sort of device that can use ultrasound to provide input to your brain, http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/200...al-life-matrix/ (this isn't a great article on the subject).
I'm pretty interested to see where the next decade takes us.
It's a cyber arm, currently in testing, but real-life testing by a one-armed woman who owns a daycare. It isn't brain controlled, but hooks up to the arm in certain places to read the electrical impulses that would be sent to the stump and otherwise fizzle out.
Probably common knowledge, but Rush Limbaugh has 2 cochlear implants to fix a genetic deafness.
Also, cybereyes, very primative but it's a start: http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/08/telesco...ved-by-the-fda/
There is another eye implant I can't seem to find, but it involves thin electronic receptors implanted in the eye. I don't 100% recall how they're supposed to work, but they can restore blurry vision to the blind. Here's a different approach to an eye implant http://www.gizmag.com/australian-bionic-ey...d-vision/14680/
Here is the beginning of the Matrix, http://www.physorg.com/news124723221.html
Rudimentary mind controlled videogames. If that isn't enough for you, Sony currently has a couple of patents for some sort of device that can use ultrasound to provide input to your brain, http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/200...al-life-matrix/ (this isn't a great article on the subject).
I'm pretty interested to see where the next decade takes us.
The problem they had before with electrodes in the brain is that the signal degrades over time, but maybe they licked that problem, or maybe they didn't but it is still worth it.
All I know is that my Father is already a Cyborg. 
And a friend of mine cliams that title as well. And he sets off airport metal detectors, which was a problem when he was doing contract work around North America in the Post-9/11 Security.
And a friend of mine cliams that title as well. And he sets off airport metal detectors, which was a problem when he was doing contract work around North America in the Post-9/11 Security.
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 5 2010, 08:38 PM) 
All I know is that my Father is already a Cyborg.
And a friend of mine cliams that title as well. And he sets off airport metal detectors, which was a problem when he was doing contract work around North America in the Post-9/11 Security.
And a friend of mine cliams that title as well. And he sets off airport metal detectors, which was a problem when he was doing contract work around North America in the Post-9/11 Security.
That reminds me, I need to look up what happened with that cyborg guy's lawsuit against the TSA for making him remove all his computer equipment. Apparently, he wore it CONSTANTLY and it caused psychological damage to remove it all. No idea what he was doing with it (I think he was a professor at a university so his job description required him be weird as hell), but the guy was ahead of the curve.
I'm betting overlaid displays on goggles/glasses are going to be popular very soon as much as everyone has their face buried in their iPhone/Droid/BlackBerry/etc. There a set of goggles available now for smartphones for under $100, but every single person who's worn them has complained about horrible, horrible motion sickness. As soon as they fix that problem, I'm betting it's going to be insanely widespread.
I'm just afraid that these new-fanged cybernetics are gonna cost me an arm and a leg.
/here a week, try the veal.
/here a week, try the veal.
QUOTE (X-Kalibur @ Aug 5 2010, 10:27 PM)
I'm just afraid that these new-fanged cybernetics are gonna cost me an arm and a leg.
Nope... just your first born child. Don't worry... we don't send them to the ghouls until they've grown a bit.
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