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Duckspwn: I'm sorry to say it, but I'm in the minority who didn't like the articles at all. Ah well, to each his own I guess. #cyborgs more »
Gordonium: This was a great theme week here at Giz. Thanks to everybody involved in making it happen! I look forward to This Cyborg Life 2.0! #cyborgs more »
valkilmerisawful: Where's the Carl Sagan autotune now? Come one, we all know that anaerobic glycolysis would fill a thousand 500-page volumes via "Cosmos". Now I want... more »
Odin: Agree with the majority of votes, it's our minds that give us our humanity, not our bodies. Transplant me into a cat and I'm still a person that could... more »
Odin: And with the exception of the two pairs of shoes none of them occupy the same equipment slot! You could wear a full set of this stuff! #skymall more »
Curves: I get a strange vision of a combination IPhone and Vampire. #bloodbatteries more »
Benguin: SkyMall is my favorite thing about flying. I take the catalog every time I fly as a cheapo souvenir. The inventory is just so ridiculous. #skymall more »
Xagest: I'm imagining the irony of having a device in your body to fight diabetes. It'd be a device that is powered by glucose to process glucose.... #bloodb... more »
Calzo: I'm shocked that someone would think of this. #bloodbatteries more »
The Lab: From the article "their waste products will need to be removed without allowing any harmful substances to leach out into the blood stream". That coul... more »

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This Cyborg Life Gets Unplugged
With Monday here, it's time to wrap up last week's theme This Cyborg Life, a look into the future of the machine called Man. More »
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Can Your Body Be A Battery?
What if machines ran off biological fuel—blood sugar—from our bodies? Could we basically power gadgets on America's increasing supply of body fat and Snickers bars? More »
#health

Psychic Powers, Cochlear Implants, and My Bionic Ex-Boyfriend
There were some perks to dating a cyborg. More »
#cyborgs

Meet the British Man with the "Bionic Bottom"
What better way to, um, end the This Cyborg Life theme week than a post about a British guy with a bionic ass? More »
#eyeballremoval

Careful, You'll Poke an Eye Out with That Thing
How might one repair a cyborg's eye in the future? Why, with this handy eyeball removing tool. How does one forget what's seen in this image? Macallan 12 years, neat, that's how. [Bloomers and Bows via Boing Boing Gadgets]
#gadgets

The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style
I am ashamed of two things. 1) That in our quest for the cyborg life, we were beaten to the punch by SkyMall, and 2) that none of the following products are fake. More »
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How Cellphones Are Changing Our Brains
We've spent a lot of time this week discussing how we can use technology to change our bodies. But according to new research, one of the gadgets we rely on daily is already having a measurable effect on our brains. More »
#aimeemullins

Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception
Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. More »
#nsfw

There Shouldn't Be A GPS Tracking System In My Lingerie
I'm all for naughty, oh-come-treat-me-like-a-bad-girl-tonight scraps of lace. What I'm not such a fan of is trashy oh-come-follow-me-using-the-built-in-GPS lingerie. I don't care if it's pretty, frilly designer lingerie. It's got a damn tracking system embedded in the fabric. More »
#cyborgsex

Becoming a Sexual Cyborg (NSFW)
I used to think "sexual enhancement" just meant "sex toys." That is, until I started exploring the wonderful—and sometimes utterly weird—world of mechanical and electronic sex augmentations. Here's what's happening now and what will happen soon. More »
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Finger Touching Phone Concept Gives You Touchtone Knuckles
The Finger Touching phone concept is perfect if you're not brave enough to have a phone embedded under your skin, yet still want to look trendy and futuristic. Granted you'd look dorky talking into your hand, hologram buttons or not. More »
#questionoftheday

At What Point Would Our Cyborg-selves Cease To Be Human?
Yes, it's the RoboCop question. How much of your body would you have to replace with machines before you could no longer be considered human? Let's break it down into percentages. More »
#concepts

Apple iThink (It's Not Real, But You Know You Want It)
While it would be a shame to lose the understated flare of Jonathan Ive design, the prospect of a glowing Apple logo embedded in the rear of my skull would be a worthy trade. More »
#tgif

10 Human Functions We've Already Handed Over To The Machines
One idea behind a "cyborg life" is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. These 10 machines illustrate how we have already begun passing the torch on tasks we are getting to lazy to do ourselves. More »
#interview

Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous
We are at a biological turning point: We can invent organisms to make our drugs and fuel, even recode our DNA. It's easy to run away screaming, but author Michael Specter says we have to quit whining and face it. More »
#imagecache

Brainputer
Whoa whoa whoa. Wait a second. You're telling me there's no liquid cooling? [Source Unknown]
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Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
I'm touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue. More »
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EyeWriter Allows Man To Paint Despite Paralysis
Before disease took his ability to move, Tony Quan was an amazing graffiti artist. Now he is completely paralyzed, save for his eyes, and still an amazing artist. Seeing how he works left me with tear-streaked cheeks. More »
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NeuroStar TMS Depression Therapy System First To Be Given FDA Approval
Last year, Neuronetics' NeuroStar TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) Therapy system became the first device of its kind to be cleared by the FDA for treating depression. Although, the similarity to a dentist chair was probably not a great idea. More »
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The Fashion Icons Of Wearable Computing Circa 2000
I was wondering what Aimee Mullins was running from, and now I suspect that it might've been these fellows. I'm sure they're great people, being a part of MIT's Wearable Computing team and all, but I would run too. More »
#iphoneapps

10 iPhone Apps To Augment Your Sad Reality
Augmented reality. It's definitely a buzz phrase, but what is it, exactly? How do you experience it? Is there an app for it? Oh, most definitely. Here are 10. More »
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Want To Upgrade Yourself? Head To The Bionic Body Shop
Vagus Nerve Stimulation: $95,000. Deep Brain Stimulation: $40,000. Sacral Nerve Stimulation: $16,000. I don't need most of these things (or even know what they are), but I'd still love a spending spree in the Bionic Body Shop. More »
#questionoftheday

What Ability Would Be Your First Choice For Cyborg Enhancement?
If you could enhance one ability with a machine implant what would it be? Before you say something about sex, consider all of the other amazing possibilities.
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Mimic BioShock's Body-Mod Splicing With Your Own EVE Hypodermic Needles
The world of BioShock shows what one tremendously interesting direction of hacking your body will be like. Imagine injecting yourself with flame-throwing or electric-throwing inducing stem cells and you'll get the picture. Now you can pretend with props! More »
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Your Deteriorating Internal Organs, Reduced to an Xbox Game
3D medical imagery has always been fascinating to me: generating 3D models from film footage is still a fledgling tech, while medical professionals render guts on a daily basis. And sometimes, apparently, connected to Xbox controllers. More »
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Intelligent Learning Retinal Implants to Adapt to Real Eyes
A Swiss company called IMI has been putting its "Intelligent Retinal Implant System" through clinical trials for the past three years. When it's ready, it could help restore sight to the blind. More »
#aimeemullins

Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be?
One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she's at a disadvantage to a swimmer who's an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse, a cheater? More »
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Eating 1.5 Pounds of Nails and Scrap Metal Isn't The Best Way To Turn Yourself Into a Cyborg
A Peruvian man named Requelme Abanto has a new identity—the "hardware store". That's because he recently had surgery to remove 1.5 pounds worth of 5-inch nails, rusted copper wire, scrap metal and coins from his stomach. More »
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Your Next Body Is Growing In a Lab Right Now
At TEDMED, I witnessed video clips showing science I never knew was so advanced. Dr. Anthony Atala has been growing human tissue and organs, in a lab, for nearly two decades. He's even printed kidneys from a cell-stuffed inkjet printer. More »
#deals

Amazon's Blu-ray Sale as Good an Excuse as Any to Own Robocop
Amazon is currently having a pretty great Blu-ray sale, with titles such as Robocop and Terminator available for a mere $9.99. Come on, don't fight it. [Amazon]
#upgrades

If 1950s Men Redesigned the Human Form, We'd Be Horrors
"While the human body has never been equaled [in] all-around master engineering, a number of glaring weaknesses do exist in man's basic equipment," stated a Mechanix Illustrated article from August 1956, which enlisted experts to suggest upgrades. More »
#userinterface

Gadget Singularity: Let's Ditch Our Buttons and Screens Forever
The past decade's march towards better gadgets shows a trend line pointing towards ultra powerful gadgets with UIs so seamless, they make Macs look like a punchcard computers. But if you think about it, we—not hardware—are the limitation. More »
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This Flight Helmet Collection Will Kill Your Childhood Dreams
I often daydream about piloting a super-speedy, highly experimental spy plane, but I lost all hope of ever doing that when I saw these flight helmets. Real, modded, new, or old, they're freaky enough to turn daydreams into night terrors. More »
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Nature's Most Wicked-Looking Robot, the Bacteriophage
I can't lie; I've been waiting for an excuse to post a picture of a bacteriophage*, the microscopic spider virus that lands on bacteria to inject its own DNA, for a long time. This Cyborg Life gives me an excuse. More »
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Tales of Human Upgrades: Magnetic Fingertips
So, why would you ever want to make your fingertip magnetic? Well, how about being able to feel your laptop spinning up? Or sensing if a cable had a current going through it? Think of it as a sixth sense. More »
#robots

Me and My Exoskeleton: The Trick to Super Strength
When I first see the Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC), it is hanging limply from the ceiling by a strap attached to its neck, dangling over a treadmill. I can't wait to try it on. More »
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The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic show The Six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today? More »
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Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. More »
#vision

I Wear My Suncontacts at Night
Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts. More »
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Cup&Up Surgically Implanted Bras Won't Affect Lingerie Sales Any Time Soon
I cannot fathom why someone would surgically shove a silicon bra into her body. Sure, your breast will look perfectly shaped and perky even once clothes come off, but you'll also have bra straps going through your muscles and ribs. More »

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